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THE 


First  Presbyterian  Church 

A  HISTORY  OF  THE  OLDEST 
ORGANIZATION   IN 

CHICAGO 


With  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  Pastors  and  Copious 
Extracts  from  the  Choir  Records 


BY 

PHILO  ADAMS  OTIS 

Member  of  the  Committee  on  Music  since   1874 


With   Illustrations 


Clayton  F.  Sum  my   Co. 

Chicago 

1900 


Copyright,  1900, 
By  Philo  a.  Otis. 


PRESS  OF 

Strombkrg,  Allen  &  Co., 

CHICAGO. 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.  D. 

Memorial  Tablet,  Fort  Dearborn, 

Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.  D. 

"Brick  Church," 

First  Presbyterian  Church  (1859), 

Wabash  Avenue  M.  E.  Church, 

Mr.  James  Otis, 

First  Presbyterian  Church  (1899), 

Mr.  George  F.  Bacon, 

First  Presbyterian  Church  (Inte 

Mr.  Charles  A.  Havens, 

Mr.  Clarence  Eddy, 

Second  Presbyterian  Church, 

Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin, 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier, 

First  Presbyterian  Church  (1887 

Choir  (1892-1895), 

Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore, 

Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble, 

Mr.  Glenn  Hall, 

Choir  (1899-1900), 

Mr.  Alfred  Williams, 

First  Presbyterian  Church  (1866) 

Mr.  Horace  G.  Bird, 

Mr.  Augustus  G.  Downs, 

Mrs.  S.  M.  Fassett, 

Name-Plates  of  Organ  Builders, 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter,  D.  D., 

Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.  D.,     . 

Rev.  Harvey  Curtis,  D.D., 

Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.  D., 

Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.  D., 

Rev.  John  Henry  Barrows,  D.  D. 


page. 

Frontispiece. 

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62,  102 

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164 


CONTENTS. 


PAGE. 

LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS, 1 

PRELUDE, 5 

HISTORICAL, 7 

Fort  Dearborn,    9 

Arrival  OF  Rev.  Jebemiah  Porter,  D.D.,       ...  10 

Organiz-A-Tion  of  the  First  Church,       ....  11 

First  House  of  "Worship, 12 

Mr.  Porter  Accepts  Call  to  Peoria,    ....  13 

Incorporation  of  Society  and  First  Board  of  Trustees,  14 

Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.D.,            1.5 

Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D., 17 

Purchase  of  Corner  of  Clark  and  Washington  Streets,  18 

Dedication  OF  "Brick  Church," 18 

Resignation  of  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D.,           .         .  21 

Rev.  Harvey  Curtis,  D.D., 21 

Slavery  Question  and  Organization  of  Second  Church,  23 

Sale  OF  "Brick  Church," 24 

Purchase  of  Lot  on  Wabash  Avenue,    ....  25 

Dedication  of  New  Church  on  Wabash  Avenue,        .  25 

Resignation  of  Dr.  Curtis, 26 

Acceptance  of  Call  by  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D,,  28 

Resignation  of  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D. ,         .        .  29 

Call  to  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D. ,            ...  30 

CALVARY  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH— Organization,  32 

Rev.  F.  W.  Graves, 35 

Rev.  Edward  Anderson, 36 

Purchase  of  Corner  of  Indiana  Avenue  and  Twenty- 
second  Street, •        •  37 

Rev.  J.  H.  Trowbridge, 37 

Rev.  E.  a.  Pierce, 38 

Rev.  W.  C.  Dickinson, 39 

Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D., 39 

New  Edifice  of  Calvary  Church, 40 

The  Great  Fire, "*! 

Union  of  First  and  Calvary  Churches,         .        .        .  42-44 

Calvary  Church  Choir, 45-47 


CONTENTS. 


THE  UNITED  CHURCHES.  pagk. 

New  Organ  and  Dedication, 48-51 

Trial  of  Rev.  David  Swing, 52 

THE  CHOIR  JOURNALS. 

1876-1878-1879— Engagement  of  Mr.  Eddy,      .        .         .     55-57 
1880— Resignation  of  Dr.  Mitchell,       ....  58 

1881— Call  to  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  .         .  59 

1882-1883 — Fiftieth  Anniversary, 61-64 

1884-1885-1886,         65-67 

1887-1888-1889,  69-73 

1890-1891-1892 75-77 

lg93_DEATH  OF  Dr.  Mitchell, 78,  79 

1894-1895 — Resignation  OF  Mr.  Eddy;  Resignation  of  Dr. 

Barrows, 80-87 

1896-1897— Call  to  Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,          .     87-93 
1898-1899 94-105 

A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

The  Village  Choir, 106 

Early  Music  in  First  Church, 109 

First  Choir  Members, 110,  111 

First  Organ  in  Chicago, 113 

Choir  Leaders  of  First  Church, 121 

Members  of  the  Choir  in  1857,  ....         122,  123 

GREAT  ORGANS  OF  THE  WORLD,  .         .         .         124,  125 

PSALMODY,  TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS,  ...         126 

LIVES  OF  PASTORS  OF  FIRST  CHURCH. 

Rev.  Jeremiah- Porter,  D.D.,  Founder,  .         .  140-143 

Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.D.,  First  Pastor,        .  144-151 

Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D.,  Second  Pastor,         .         152-154 
Rkv.  Harvey  Curtis,  D.D.,  Third  Pastor,      .        .  155,156 

Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D.,  Fourth  Pastor,       .  157-160 

Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  Fifth  Pastor,       .  161-164 

Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  Sixth  Pastor,        .         165-168 

POSTLUDE, 169 

OFFICERS  OF  THE  CHURCH, 170 

ERRATA  AND  ADDENDUM, 171 

INDEX, .         .  173-179 


Abbreviations. 
O.,  Organist. 


-S.,  Soprano;  A.,  Contralto;  T., Tenor;  B.,Bas.s; 


PRELUDE. 

In  presenting  a  history  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  I  shall  consider : 

1.  The  history  of  the  church  from  its  foundation  in 
1833  to  the  consolidation  v/ith  the  Calvary  Presbyterian 
Church  in  1871. 

2.  The  histor}--  of  the  Calvary  Presb3^terian  Church 
from  its  foundation  in  1859  to  the  consolidation  with  the 
First  Church  in  1871. 

3.  The  period  from  the  consolidation  of  the  two 
churches  in  1871  to  the  present  date,  1900. 

In  preparing-  this  volume  I  have  consulted  the  records 
of  the  Session  of  the  First  Church  commencing  May  30, 
1833;  the  files  of  newspapers  in  the  Historical  Society  and 
Public  Library;  Captain  A.  T.  Andreas'  History  of  Chi- 
cago; the  Historical  Sketch  of  Rev.  Zephaniah  Moore 
Humphrey,  D.D.  (1867)  and  the  Historical  Sermons  of  Rev. 
Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.  (1878)  and  Rev.  John  Henry  Bar- 
rows, D.D.  (1883). 

In  January,  1875,  I  became  especially  interested  in 
the  musical  part  of  the  service,  and  at  that  time  started 
a  semi-official  choir  journal,  in  which  were  recorded  every 
Sunday  the  names  of  the  members  of  the  choir  present, 
titles  of  choir  and  organ  selections,  name  of  the  officiating 
minister,  occasionally  noting  text  or  subject  of  sermon, 
as  well  as  important  pulpit  announcements.  Funeral 
services  of  members  of  the  church  and  congregation,  in 
which  the  pastor  and  choir  have  taken  part,  are  also 
noted  therein. 

This  book,  therefore,  is  largely  devoted  to  the  history'' 
of  music  in  this  church  as  a  part  of  its  service;  and,  as, 
to  my  knowledge,  there  exists  no  other  work  covering  this 
subject,  I  have  attempted  to  present  a  number  of  facts 
connected  with  church  music  with  which  I  have  become 
acquainted  during  my  investigations,  and  which  seem  to 
me  to  deserve  an  authentic  record  in  connection  with  a 
history  of  church  life  in  Chicago. 


6  PRELUDE. 

All  the  former  pastors  of  the  First  Church  except- 
ing" Rev.  John  Henry  Barrows,  D.D.,  have  passed  away. 
Rev.  Y/iiliam  John  Chichester,  D.  D.,  the  seventh  and 
present  pastor,  began  his  labors  October  3,  1897.  Rev. 
Edward  Anderson  is  the  only  surviving-  pastor  of  Calvar}- 
Church,  the  Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D.,  having-  been  called  to 
his  rest  September  10,  1899. 

My  thanks  are  due  to  many  friends  who  have  assisted  in 
the  preparation  of  this  work,  and  especially  to  the  following-: 

Mr.  Eliphalet  W.  Biatchford,  for  the  article  on  the  life 
of  his  father.  Rev.  John  Biatchford,  D.D.,  the  first  pastor; 
Mr.  Georg-e  H.  Ferg-us,  author  of  "  Fergus'  Historical 
Series"  and  "Early  Illinois";  Mr.  Henry  Eckford  Seelye, 
member  of  the  Session  (1856--72),  and  Rev.  William 
Willis  Clark,  for  data  pertaining  to  the  early  history  of  the 
church  and  its  members;  and  to  Mrs.  William  Saltonstall, 
of  Plainfield,  N.  J.,  Mrs.  Margarette  Clarkson  Hoard,  of 
Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  Mrs.  Oliver  Kepler  Johnson,  Mr. 
Edward  C.  Cleaver  and  Mr.  Charles  O.Bostwick,  of  Chicago, 
for  information  pertaining  to  the  choirs  of  earlier  days. 

I  also  feel  under  great  obligations  to  Mr.  Edward 
DuncanJardine,of  NewYork City,  Mr.  George S.Hutchings, 
of  Boston,  Mr.  George  N.Andrews,  of  Oakland,  Cal.,  Henry 
Pilcher's  Sons,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  Mr.  W.  A.  Johnson,  of 
Westfield,  Mass.,  the  late  Mr.  Charles  Rollin  Larrabee  and 
Mr.  Charles  David  Irwin,  of  Chicago,  for  their  aid  in  col- 
lecting data  regarding  the  organs  of  Chicago,  and  to  many 
other  kind  friends  for  valuable  suggestions. 

If  after  the  manner  of  "Old  Mortality,"  who  went 
about  carving  anew  the  head  lines  on  the  tombstones  of 
the  Covenanters,  I  have  been  able  to  place  in  clearer  light 
any  facts  regarding  those  who,  in  the  past,  have  given  so 
much  time  and  labor  to  the  work  of  building  up  this  church, 
then  my  task  is  done.  We  owe  much  to  the  founders  and 
the  pastors;  as  much  and  perhaps  more  to  the  faithful 
men  and  women  by  whose  devotion,  exertion  and  sacrifice 
the  church  has  been  maintained  to  this  day;  and  as  we  pass 
from  pulpit  to  congregation,  it  is  but  fitting"  to  include  the 
influence  of  the  choir  loft.  P.  A.  O. 


MEMORIAL  TABLET  ON   THE  SITE  OF  FORT  DEARBORN. 


'■*■  My  heart  is  inditing  a  good  matter T — Psalms  xlv:   /, 


HISTORICAL. 

Little  remains  to-day  of  early  Chicag-o.  The  few  his- 
toric building-s  which  escaped  the  Goths  of  1856-57  in  their 
crusade  for  public  improvement  and  extension  of  business, 
were  consumed  in  the  conflagration  of  1371.  While  Fort 
Dearborn  lasted,  it  was,  as  some  one  has  well  said,  "the 
connecting-  link  between  us  and  the  Indians  and  the  wilder- 
ness." The  block-house  held  out  until  1857.  Then  it  had  to 
go,  "and  the  place  thereof"  v/ould  "know  it  no  more," 
but  for  a  marble  tablet  attached  to  the  north  wall  of  the 
building-  at  the  intersection  of  Michig-an  Avenue  and  River 
Street,  facing-  Rush  Street  bridg-e.  Let  us  stop  and  read, 
for  our  ecclesiastical  records  start  with  Fort  Dearborn: 

This  building-  occupies  the  site  of  old  Fort  Dearborn,  which  ex- 
tended a  little  across  and  soaiewhat  into  the  river  as  it  now  is.  The 
fort  was  built  in  1803-4,  forming- our  outmost  defense. 

B3^  order  of  Gen.  Hull  it  was  evacuated  Aug.  15,  1812,  after 
its  stores  and  provisions  had  been  distributed  among-  the  Indians. 

Very  soon  after,  the  Indians  attacked  and  massacred  about 
fifty  of  the  troops  and  a  number  of  citizens,  including-  women  and 
children,  and  next  day  burned  the  fort. 

In  1816  it  was  rebuilt,  but  after  the  Blackhawk  war  it  went 
into  g-radual  disuse,  and  in  Ma3%  1837,  was  abandoned  by  the  army, 
but  was  occupied  by  various  government  officers  until  1857,  when  it 
was  torn  down,  excepting-  a  single  building-  which  stood  upon  this 
site  till  the  g-:-eat  fire  of  Oct.  9,  1871. 

At  the  suggestion  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society  this  tablet 
was  erected  by  W.  M.  Hoyt. 

Nov.,  1880. 

Why  was  this  particular  point  on  Lake  Michig-an 
selected  by  our  g-overnment  as  a  position  of  "outmost 
defense  "  ?  Why  was  the  fort  placed  at  the  mouth  of  the 
Chicag-o  River,  the  least  important  of  all  the  rivers  flowing- 
into  the  lake,  an  insignificant  stream,  with  no  harbor 
facilities,  with  few  natural  advantag-es?  And  yet  on  the 
site  of  this  fort  has  g-rown  up  one  of  the  great  cities  of 
the  world. 

A  few  historical  data  may  here  be  permitted,  though 
a  full  presentation  would  be  outside  the  scope  of  the 
present  w'ork.     One  hundred  years  ago  the  great  highwa}^ 


"f?-^. 


8  A   HISTORY  OF  THE 

from  the  Canadas  to  the  lower  Mississippi  was  up  Lake 
Michig-an  to  the  Chicago  River,  thence  by  the  Illinois 
River  into  the  "Father  of  Waters."  This  was  the  route 
of  Marquette  in  1675,  of  La  Salle  in  1679,  and  of  the 
Jesuit  fathers  in  the  eighteenth  century  in  their  mis- 
sionary journeys  from  Quebec  and  Montreal  to  New 
Orleans.  The  agents  of  the  trading  companies  having 
stations  throughout  the  northwest  and  along  the  great 
lakes  could  send  their  goods  to  the  Mississippi  only  by 
means  of  the  Chicag-o  portage. 

Fort  Dearborn  was  built  for  the  protection  of  the 
trading  interests,  to  counteract  the  influence  of  the  British 
on  the  Lidian  tribes  scattered  along-  the  lake,  and  to 
control  the  gateway  to  the  Mississippi. 

August  17,  1803,  a  company  of  United  States  soldiers, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  John  Whistler,  arrived  at 
the  Chicago  River,  and  during  that  summer  and  autumn 
built  what  has  since  been  known  as  the  first  Fort  Dear- 
born, named  after^  General  Henry  Dearborn,  at  that  time 
secretary  of  vv-ar.  The  fort  was  destroyed  at  the  time  of 
the  massacre  in  1812,  but  was  rebuilt  in  1816  on  the  same 
spot,  after  the  plan  adopted  by  the  war  department  for 
most  of  its  frontier  posts,  and  consisted  of  quarters  for  the 
officers,  barracks  for  the  soldiers,  magazine  and  provision 
storehouse  and  a  block-house  at  the  southwest  corner, 
which  served  not  only  as  a  means  of  defense,  but  as  a 
tower  from  which  a  view  could  be  had  of  the  surrounding 
territory.  The  officers'  C[uarters  were  on  the  v/est  side, 
and  the  soldiers'  on  the  east  side.  The  entire  premises 
covered  an  acre  or  more  of  g-round  and  were  enclosed 
by  a  stockade,  fourteen  feet  in  height,  made  of  pieces 
of  timber  driven  into  the  ground  and  firmly  bound 
together.  It  had  two  gates,  one  on  the  north  and  the  other 
on  the  south  side.  The  land  to  the  south  of  the  fort, 
reaching  as  far  as  Madison  Street,  was  enclosed  with  a 
fence,  and  for  a  long  time  was  known  as  "  Fort  Dearborn 
Reservation."^  Dearborn  Park,  now  occupied  by  the 
Public    Library,    was   a  part    of    this    reservation,    and 


'  Historical  Sprnioii,  by  Rev.  Abbott  E.  Kittreclffe,  D.D..  July  2,  1376. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN    CEURCH.  9 

Wabash  and   Michig-an  Avenues  were  laid  out  as  a  mili- 
tary g-arden  and  graveyard. 

Mr.  Addison  Ballard,  who  has  been  identified  with  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  for  at  least  thirt}^  years,  writes 
of  Fort  Dearborn  as  he  first  saw  it : 

Chicago,  February  7,  1899. 

In  reply  to  your  letter  asking  for  my  recollections  of  Fort  Dear- 
born, I  will  say  that  I  came  to  Chicago  first  in  April,  1843,  a  wet 
spring,  mud  everywhere.  Fort  Dearborn  stood  on  the  highest  and 
driest  spot  that  I  could  see  or  find,  and  was  located  at  about  the 
junction  of  what  is  now  Michigan  Avenue  and  River  Street.  At  that 
time  the  land  was  not  subdivided,  as  it  was  when  I  came  to  Chicago 
to  live  in  1852.  The  block-house  was  the  distinctive  feature  of  the 
fort;  it  remained  long  after  the  other  buildings  had  disappeared. 
The  stockade  was  still  standing  in  1843.  It  ran  along  the  west  line 
of  Michigan  Avenue  to  the  present  alley  between  Michigan  Avenue 
and  River  Street,  thence  along  the  line  of  this  alley  to  River  Street. 
The  opening  of  River  Street  ma}'  have  removed  the  stockade  from  the 
north  boundary  of  the  fort  prior  to  the  year  1852,  The  stockade 
was  made  of  puncheons^  four  to  six  inches  thick,  driven  into  the 
ground.  The  lighthouse  stood  on  the  bank  of  the  river  just  west  of 
the  south  end  of  Rush  Street  bridge,  as  it  now  is. 

In  1856  John  S.  Wright,  a.  manufacturer  and  dealer  in  agri- 
cultural machinery,  bought  the  block-house  and  all  that  remained 
of  the  stockade,  removing  it  in  1857  to  his  new  factory  on  the  north 
branch  of  the  river,  and  manufacturing  the  old  timber  into  furniture 
as  souvenirs  for  himself  and  friends.  The  old  log's  were  native  oak, 
and  all  well  seasoned.  At  that  time  [1856]  I  vv^as  manufacturing 
sash,  blinds  and  doors  at  my  factory,  corner  of  Market  and  Congress 
Streets.  Mr.  Wright  wished  me  to  saw  up  the  logs  into  lumber,  but 
not  having  machinery  adapted  to  such  work,  I  could  not  take  the 
order.  So  he  did  not  remove  the  block-house  and  stockade  until 
1857,  when  he  procured  the  necessary  machinery. 

Chicag-o  in  1833  consisted  of  a  collection  of  log"  houses, 
or  huts  rather,  built  by  the  traders  and  settlers,  on  both 
sides  of  the  river,  for  a  mile  or  so  from  its  mouth.  The 
only  frame  buildings  were  those  occupied  b};-  the  stores, 
of  which  there  were  three,  standing-  about  half  a  mile  back 
from  the  lake. 

The  first  minister  to  preach  the  Gospel  in  Chicag-o  was 
an  ag-ed  Methodist,  Rev.  Jesse  Walker,  who  came  in  April, 
1833.     "He  lived  in  a  log-  cabin,"  says  Dr.  Mitchell,  "on 


1  The  halves  of  a  split  log^,  with   the  faces  sincxithed  with  au  adze  or  ax.  are 
callert  pup.cheons. 


10  A    HISTORY  OF  THE 

the  west  side  of  the  river,  near  the  north  branch,  and 
preached  there  on  the  Sabbath. "^ 

Just  at  this  time,  the  spring-  of  1833,  the  Indian  War 
having"  terminated  by  the  surrender  of  Blackhawk  to  Gen- 
eral Scott, ^  the  troops  at  Fort  Dearborn  were  ordered 
elsewhere.  They  were  to  be  relieved  by  two  companies 
then  at  Fort  Brady,  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Michigan  Territory, 
under  the  command  of  Captain  John  Fowle,^  and  Brevet- 
Major  De  Lafayette  Wilcox.*  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter,  who 
had  been  at  the  Sault  since  1831,  doing  missionar}'^  work  at 
this  frontier  post  and  preaching-  to  the  men  in  the  fort, was 
invited  by  Major  Fowle  to  accompany  the  expedition  to 
Fort  Dearborn.  He  decided  to  g-o,  as  he  had  been  re- 
quested by  the  Missionary  Society  to  explore  the  shores 
of  Lake  Michigan,  at  that  time  almost  an  unknown  region, 
and  see  if  there  were  any  settlements  where  the  preaching 
of  the  Gospel  would  be  received.  The  trip  from  Fort 
Brady  "was  then,"  says  Dr.  Mitchell,  "almost  an  ocean 
voyage."  It  took  seven  days  to  come  from  Mackinac. 
The  little  schooner,  "  the 'Mayflower' of  our  history,"  at 
last  arrived  off  Chicago  on  Sunday  morning.  May  12,  1833, 
only  to  pass  another  drear}'-  day  waiting-  for  the  boisterous 
waves  to  subside,  that  a  landing-  might  be  effected.  On 
Monday,  the  13th,  the  lake  having-  calmed  sufficiently  for 
the  vessel  to  enter  the  river.  Major  Fowle  landed  his 
troof)s  and  passeng-ers. 

May  19,  the  Sunday  following  the  landir;-  of  Major 
Fowle  and  the  troops.  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter  held  the  first 
religious  services  in  the  history  of  the  church,  in  the 
carpenter  shop  of  Fort  Dearborn,  preaching  from  the  words 

'  Hisloi-ical  Sermon,  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  1878. 

2  In  1832  my  grandfather.  Deacon  Philo  Adams,  of  Milan,  Erie  county,  Ohio,  took 
a  drove  of  cattle  to  Fort  Dearborn  for  the  supplj'  of  General  Scott's  army.  He  left 
Milan,  May  10,  delivered  the  cattle  June  20,  and  arrived  home  July  1.  The  diarj'  he 
kept  on  this  trip  is  now  in  the  possession  of  my  uncle,  Mr.  Jay  Adams,  of  Toledo,  Ohio. 
When  a  lad,  I  often  heard  my  grandfather  speak  of  General  Scott  and  Fort  Dearborn. 
He  told  me  that  the  Indians  called  this  place  Chi-Ca-Guh,  the  last  syllable  spoken  as  a 
g-uttural  and  with  a  stron;^  accent.  M3'  jrreat-grandfather,  Daniel  Adams,  was  one  of 
General  Stark's  Green  Mountain  Uoys,  and  was  present  at  the  surrender  of  Fort  Ticon- 
derog-a.     Deacon  Pliilo  Adams  was  born  December  12,  1786,  and  died  July  15,  1864. 

=  Captain  John  Fowle  was  killed  April  25,  18SS,  by  a  steamboat  explosion,  on  the 
Ohio  River. 

"  Major  Wilcox  distinguished  himself  in  the  wnr  of  1812  and  died  at  Palatka,  Fla.. 
January  3,    1842. 


FII^ST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  \\ 

of  the  Carpenter  of  Nazareth:  "Herein  is  my  Father  grlori- 
fied,  that  ye  bear  much  fruit;  so  shall  ye  be  my  disciples."^ 
In  the  afternoon  Mr.  Porter  preached,  in  Father  Walk- 
er's cabin;  at  six  o'clock  he  held  a  prayer  meeting  at  the 
fort,  and  later  in  the  evening-  attended  another  service  at 
Father  Walker's.  About  a  month  later  wq  find  the  second 
entry  in  Vol.  I.  of  the  records  of  the  Session,  which  reads: 

June  26.  The  church  was  organized  by  adopting  the  Covenant 
and  Articles  of  Faith  in  the  Presbyterj^  of  Detroit. 

The  following  persons  were  received  at  the  formation  of  the 
church,  viz. : 

in  garrison. 

Capt.  D.  Wilcox.  Richard  Buktis. 

Mrs.  S.  G.  Wilcox.  Benjamin  Bkiscok. 

LiKUT.  L.  T.  Jameson.  Ebenezer  Ford. 

Sergt.  J.  Adams.  John  Guy. 

Mrs.  H.  Adams.  Isaac  Inghram. 

Sergt.  William  C.  Cole.  William  Johnson. 

Mrs.  Julia  Cole.  David  Lake. 

Mrs.  Ruth  Ward.  James  Murray. 

CHICAGO. 

Mr.    John  Wright.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Brown. 
RuFus  Brown.  "      Mary  Taylor. 

"      John  S.  Wright.  "      Clark. 

"       Philo  Carpenter.  "       Syntha  Brown. 

"      Jonathan  H.  Poor. 

At  the  jubilee  celebration  of  this  church,  held  in  1883, 
the  name  of  Miss  Eliza  Chappel,  whom  he  had  known  in 
Mackinac  as  a  teacher,  was  added  to  the  above  list  "on  the 
authority  and  by  the  request  of  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter." 
The  first  public  school  in  Chicago  was  organized  in  the 
meeting  house  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
Miss  Chappel  was  the  first  teacher  in  this  school.  She  was 
married  to  Rev.  Mr.  Porter  June  16, 1834,  in  Rochester,N.  Y. 

The  membership  of  the  church  increased  within  a  few 
months  from  twenty-six  to  fifty-seven,  and  to  accommodate 
both  soldiers  and  citizens,  preaching  services  were  held  fora 
time  both  in  the  fort  and  at  Father  Walker's  cabin  on  Wolf 
Point.  June  11,  1833,  a  committee  had  been  appointed  to 
solicit  subscriptions  for  the  construction  of  a  meeting 
house,  Mr.  Porter  generously  suggesting  that  any  money 
subscribed  toward  his  support  might  be  applied  to  the 

Historical  Sermon,  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  18S3,  pasre  16. 


12  A    HISTORY  OF  THE 

building-  fund.  In  the  meantime  the  Home  Missionary 
Society  made  proper  provision  for  Mr.  Porter. 

The  erection  of  the  first  house  of  worship  was  quite 
an  event  in  the  little  settlement.  "Nearly  all  the  inhab- 
itants aided  in  the  construction  of  this  building-,  and  the 
undertaking  was  so  stupendous  that  every  shoulder  was 
needed  at  the  wheel." ^ 

Themeetinghouse,builtby  Mr.  Joseph  Meeker,^  "stood 
out  in  the  open  field,  without  any  fence  around  it,  on  what  is 
now  the  alle}'  of  the  lot  at  the  southwest  corner  of  Lake 
and  Clark  Streets,"  on  the  south  twenty -five  feet  of  lot  1 
in  block  34  in  the  Original  Town  of  Chicago.  The  Chicago 
Daily  Denioc7'at  (1834)  says:  "The  First  Presbyterian 
Church  has  purchased  lot  1  in  block  34."  The  books  of  the 
Title  Guarantee  and  Trust  Co.  do  not,  however,  show  any 
record  of  such  a  purchase.  Y/e  can  only  infer  that  for 
the  two  years  or  more  the  Society  was  in  possession  of 
this  lot  it  must  have  been  by  permission  of  the  Trustees  of 
the  Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal,  who  held  title  to  the  land. 
The  lot  was  purchased  at  the  canal  sale,  June,  1836,  more 
than  tv\^o  years  after  the  meeting  house  was  built,  by  James 
Curtiss,  secretary  of  the  Illinois  Hotel  Co.  The  hotel 
scheme  collapsed  in  the  panic  of  1835-37,  and  thus  the 
church  was  providentially  permitted  to  continue  in  posses- 
sion another  year,  until  a  new  location  was  procured  farther 
south  on  Clark  Street,  below  Washing-ton  Street.'^ 

It  was  a  frame  structure  of  the  plainest  character, 
about  forty  feet  in  length  and  twenty-five  in  width,  with 
plastered  walls  and  bare  puncheon  floors.     The  cost  was 


>  Hurlbut's  "  Chicag'o  Antiquities,"  page  615. 

-  Mr.  Joseph  Meeker  was  born  in  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.,  September  29,1805;  came 
to  Chicago  early  in  1833;  was  received  into  the  membership  of  this  church  September  8. 
1833;  librarian  in  the  first  formal  organization  of  tlie  Sunda3'  School  March  16,  183S;  one 
of  the  founders  of  the  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  June  20,  185');  died  in  Chicago 
January  4,  1872.  I  was  a  member  of  his  Sunday  Schixil  class  at  the  South  Congrega- 
tional Church  in  1857,  and  often  heard  him  speak  of  his  early  life  in  Chicago. 

^  Rev.  A.  D.  Field,  in  speaking  of  the  early  churches  of  Chicago,  sa.vs  :  "  There 
was  this  3'ear  [1836]  a  small  Catholic  chapel,  a  block  south  of  the  Tremont  House,  and 
the  Presbyterians  had  a  house  about  20x30,  seated  with  school  bonclies,  wliich  served  as 
church  and  school  house,  situated  on  Clark  Street,  between  Randolph  and  Lake  Streets, 
where  the  present  writer  received  many  of  the  elements  of  an  education,  and  often  sat 
with  aching  bones  through  the  long  Sabbath  services."  ("  Chicago  and  Her  Churches. 
Phillips,  18C7.) 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  13 

$600.  The  seating  arrang-ements  consisted  of  benches 
made  of  ordinary  pine  boards,  which  would  accommodate 
about  200.  The  settlers  and  the  troops  from  the  garrison 
"filled  the  building-  comfortably  every  Sunday."  In  the 
spring-  months,  when  the  water  in  the  ditch  in  front  of  the 
church  made  it  almost  inaccessible,  the  benches  taken  from 
the  church  were  the  ordinary  means  for  bridging  the 
slough. 

"Several  of  the  members  of  the  church,"  says  Dr. 
Mitchell,^  "lived  on  the  West  Side,  where  there  were  then 
three  houses,  but  one  of  those  houses,  though  only  20X14, 
accommodated  that  winter  seventeen  persons.  For  them 
it  was  quite  a  circumstance  to  reach  the  church.  The  river 
had  to  be  crossed  by  a  sort  of  floating  bridge,  near  what 
is  now  Randolph  Street,  and  they  must  then  go  skipping 
from  one  log  to  another,  across  the  swamps  and  bogs  of 
the  muddy  prairies.  Sometimes  they  were  sadly  bemired 
on  the  way,  and  more  than  once  ladies  had  to  be  picked  up 
by  strong  arms  and  lifted  across  the  black  and  treacherous 
holes." 

Such  was  "Chicago's  first  built  Protestant  meeting 
house,  commonly  called  'the  Lord's  House,' and  a  useful 
building  it  was  to  the  first  settlers."  It  was  dedicated 
January  4,  1834,  Mr.  Porter  preaching  a  sermon  from  this 
text:  "  Yea,  the  sparrow  hath  found  a  house,  and  the 
swallow  a  nest  for  herself,  where  she  may  la}^  her  young; 
even  Thine  altars,  O  Lord  of  hosts  ;  my  King  and  my 
God."  (Psalms  Ixxxiv:  3.)  Mr.  Porter  was  assisted  in  the 
dedicatory  services  by  Rev.  A.  B,  Freeman,  pastor  of  the 
First  Baptist  Church,  who  offered  the  consecration  prayer. 

From  1833  to  1835  the  membership  increased  to  about 
one  hundred,  and,  as  the  church  was  then  self-supporting, 
Mr.  Porter  felt  justified  in  accepting  a  call,  in  the  autumn 
of  1835,  to  the  Main  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Peoria, 
"a  place  which  had  been  settled  some  fourteen  years  earlier 
than  Chicago." 

Mr.  Porter  was  very  reluctant  to  sever  his  relations 
with  the  work  he  had  founded  in  Chicago,  and  did  not  go, 

^  Historical  Sermon,  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  pag'e  7. 


14  A    HISTORY  OF  THE 

as  he  wrote  Dr.  Mitchell  many  years  later,  without  an 
earnest  effort  to  find  in  his  successor,  "the  best  minister  in 
the  land."  While  a  delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  at 
Pittsburg- in  May,  1835,  Mr.  Porter  was  in  hopes  of  finding- 
some  one  there  who  would  believe  in  the  possibilities  of  a 
great  city  on  the  banks  of  Lake  Michigan.  Rev.  Edward 
Humphrey,  D.D.,  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  brother  of  Rev.  Z. 
M.  Humphrey,  D.D.;  Rev.  E.  N.  Kirk,  D.D.,  of  Albany; 
Rev.  J.  W.  Adams,  D.D.,  of  Syracuse  ;  Rev.  Joel  Hawes, 
D.D.,  of  Hartford,  and  Rev.  Derrick  Lansing,  D.D.,  of 
Auburn,  "were  besieged  in  vain."  There  was  no  g-reat 
desire  on  the  part  of  any  of  these  men  to  leave  their 
comfortable  homes  in  the  east  for  pioneer  life  in  a  place 
which  was  generally  supposed  to  be  "in  a  great  swamp 
back  of  Lake  Michigan." 

The  people  had  already  taken  the  name  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church,  but  no  steps  had  been  taken  for  the 
purpose  of  incorporating  the  Societv.  November  24, 
1835,  a  meeting  of  the  members  was  held,  in  pursuance  of 
an  act  entitled,  "An  Act  Concerning  Religious  Societies," 
approved  February  6,  1835,  at  which  the  Society  assumed 
the  name  of  "The  First  Presbyterian  Church  and  Society 
of  Chicag'o,"  and  elected  five  trustees  thereof,  to  hold  their 
office  for  one  year,  viz.:  Louis  T.  Jamison,^  Peter  Bolles,- 
WilliamH. Brown,  ^HiramPearsons*andWilliamH. Taylor,^ 

'  Captain  Louis  Titus  Jamison,  U.  S.  A.,  a  native  of  Virg-inia,  was  one  of  thie 
officers  of  the  g'arrison  who  came  with  Mr.  Porter  in  May,  1833,  from  Fort  Bradj'.  At 
this  time  (183S)  he  had  cliarare  of  the  government  worli  on  the  harbor;  died  in  October,  1856, 
ag'ed  fifty-one,  at  Rio  Grande,  Tes.,  where  he  resided  after  the  Mexican  War. 

-  Mr.  Peter  Bol]es  was  a  member  of  the  committee  for  obtaining'  a  charter  to  the 
citj"^  of  Chicasfo.  At  the  first  city  election  in  1837  he  was  chosen  alderman  from  the  sec- 
ond ward  ;  school  inspector  in  1839 ;  died  in  New  York  City  August  19, 1839,  aged  forty- 
five. 

^  Mr.  William  H.  Brown  came  to  Chicago  in  1835,  and  was  received  into  the  mem- 
bei'ship  of  the  church  November  3  of  that  year.  In  June  of  the  following  j^ear  he  was 
chosen  an  elder,  an  office  he  continued  to  hold  until  1842,  when  he  withdrew  with  others 
to  organize  the  Second  Church.  He  was  a  philanthropist  and  an  influential  friend  of 
the  Chicag-o  public  Schools,  acting  as  school  agent  from  1840  to  1853.  He  served  the  peo- 
ple so  ably  in  this  capacity  that  Brown  Schtx)!,  built  in  1855,  was  named  tor  him.  The 
Chicago  Historical  Society  chose  him  as  its  first  president  in  1S50.  Mr.  Brovvn  died  in 
Amsterdam,  Holland,  June  17,  1867,  aged  seventj'-two. 

*  Mr.  Hiram  Pearsons  came  to  Chicago  before  1833.  At  the  first  city  election  in 
1837  he  was  chosen  treasurer;  afterward  alderman  of  the  sixth  ward.  He  was  a  larg'e 
real  estate  operator  ;  died  at  Alameda,  Cal.,  August  11,  1S6S,  aged  fifty-seven. 

^  Mr.  William  Hartt  Taylor  is  now  living  at  Brookline,  Mass.  While  in  Chicago, 
he  was  a  shoe  merchant,  and  resided  at  the  southeast  corner  of  Wabash  Avenue  and 
Congress  Street. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  15 

a  certificate  of  whose  election  was  made  and  recorded 
according-  to  the  provisions  of  the  said  act. 

During-  the  two  years  which  elapsed  before  a  succes- 
sor to  Mr.  Porter  was  secured,  the  pulpit  was  supplied 
partly  by  Rev.  Isaac  T.  Hinton^  pastor  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist Church,  Rev.  William  McLean^  and  Rev.  J.  J.  Miter.-'' 
"Mr.  Hinton  became  virtually  the  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian as  well  as  the  Baptist  Church,"  says  Dr.  Mitchell; 
"both  congregations  were  his  auditors."  Mr.  Porter,  in  his 
pamphlet  on  "The  Earliest  Religious  History  of  Chicago" 
(pages  59  and  60),  shows  how  intimate  were  the  relations 
between  the  tv/o  churches.  "The  First  Baptist  Church 
was  org-anized  October  19,  1833,  under  the  pastorship  of 
Rev.  Allen  B.  Freeman.  Previous  to  his  coming,  his  prin- 
cipal supporters,  Dr.  John  T.  Temple  and  others,  had 
attended  our  meeting-s  in  the  fort  and  at  Wolf  Point,  and 
until  our  church  was  built,  Mr.  Freeman  and  I  preached 
alternately  in  a  room  on  Franklin  Street." 

Mr.  Freeman  died  of  typhoid  fever  December  17, 
1834,  aged  twenty-seven,  and  his  funeral  services  were  held 
in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  Mr.  Porter  preaching 
the  sermon.  These  cordial  relations  between  the  two 
churches  continued  during  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  Isaac 
T.  Hinton,  as  the  ministers  "  felt  bound  together  by  the 
warmest  and  strongest  bonds." 

There  were  at  that  time  two  men  in  the  west  who 
were  afterward  to  become  devoted  pastors  of  this  church 
— Rev.  John  Blatchford  and  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom.     Each 

>  Hon.  John  Wentworth,  in  a  lecture  delivered  May  7,  1876,  said  of  Mr.  Hinton : 
"  He  was  a  man  who  never  seemed  so  happy  as  when  immersing-  converted  sinners  in 
our  frozen  river  or  lake.  It  was  said  of  his  converts  that  no  one  of  them  was  ever  known 
to  be  a  backslider.  It  is  also  claimed  for  Mr.  Hinton  that  no  couple  he  married  was 
ever  divorced.  He  was  just  as  careful  in  marrying-  as  he  was  in  baptizing-.  He  wanted 
nobody  to  fall  from  g-race."  (Andreas'  ■'  History  of  Chicag-o,"  Vol.  I,  page  318.)  Mr. 
Hinton  died  of  yellow  fever  in  New  Orleans,  August  28,  1847,  aged  forty-eight. 

-  MissFrancesL.Willard,oneof  the  early  teachers  inChicago,  wroteof  Mr.  McL,ean 
in  a  letter,  May  25,  1836:  "  He  preaches  with  eloquence  and  in  a  studied  argumenta- 
tive style.  Mr.  McLean  says  that  in  all  his  travels  he  was  never  in  a  place  where 
money  was  talked  of  as  here.  Ten  thousand  dollars  is  nothing  !  fifty  thousand!  one 
hundred  thousand  only  are  named."  (Andreas'  "History  of  Chicago,"  Vol.  I,  page 
301.)  Rev.  William  McLean  was  afterward  pastor  from  1837  to  1840,  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  died  February  13,  1873,  ag-ed  sixty-six. 

^  Rev.  John  J.  Miter  was  the  stated  supply,  1839-40,  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Knoxville,  111. 


16  A    HISTORY  OF  THE 

had  visited  the  scene  of  his  future  labors,  each  appreciated 
the  responsibilities  of  the  work,  each  recog-nized  the  grow- 
ing- importance  of  the  young-  city  and  the  great  need  there 
for  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel. 

December  25,  1836,  Miss  Willard  wrote  to  a  friend: 
We  have  prospects  of  a  minister  at  last.  Rev.  Mr.  Blatchford, 
from  some  town  near  New  York  City,  has  received  a  call,  has  not 
accepted  it,  but  will  preach  here  this  winter.  Thirty  thousand  dol- 
lars are  subscribed  for  the  erection  of  a  meeting-  house  which  is  to 
be  built  of  marble.  It  is  not  calculated  by  the  committee  that  it  will 
be  finished  in  less  than  two  years.  * 

Rev.  John  Blatchford  started  west  in  1836,  and 
after  a  brief  stay  in  Chicago,  went  to  Jacksonville,  111., 
where  he  spent  the  winter  of  1836-37.  There  he  received 
acall  from  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  which 
he  accepted,  and  was  installed  as  its  first  pastor  July  1, 1837. 

All  thoughts  the  people  may  have  entertained  as  to 
the  erection  of  a  costl}?^  house  of  worship,  "to  be  built  of 
marble,"  were  soon  dispelled  by  the  financial  depression  of 
1837.  For  a  few  years  they  had  to  content  themselves  with 
their  simple  frame  meeting  house,  although  some  desired 
changes  were  effected  in  its  condition  and  location.  The 
former  situation  had  become  undesirable,  as  the  adjacent 
property  was  in  demand  for  business  purposes,  and  the 
people  were  going  to  the  southern  part  of  the  city  for  their 
homes,  "away  out  on  the  prairies  below  Van  Buren  Street." 
The  building  was  moved  in  1837-38  from  its  original  position 
on  Clark  Street,  near  Lake  Street,  to  the  corner  of  Clark 
Street  and  the  alley  now  known  as  Calhoun  Place,  south  of 
Washington  Street  and  facing  Clark  Street,  being  the 
south  fifty  feet  of  lot  1,  in  block  56,  Original  Town  of  Chi- 
cago. During  the  seven  years  following  and  prior  to  the 
purchase  of  the  land  by  the  Society,  the  owners  did  not 
demand  any  rental,  as  they  "regarded  the  presence  of  the 
church  a  blessing  to  the  whole  community."  After  two 
years  of  unceasing  labor.  Dr.  Blatchford's  health  gave  way 
and  he  was  obliged  to  terminate  his  work  in  Chicago. 
He  was  dismissed  from  the  pastorate  August  18,  1839,  at 
his  own  request. 


'Andreas'  "  History  of  Chicriffo,"'  Vol.  I,  pa-jft-  301. 


REV.  JOHN   BLATCHFORD,  D.  D. 
From  a  dajruerreotj'pe  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  E.  W.  Blatchfor*'. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  17 

October  6,  1839,  a  call  was  extended  by  the  church  to 
Rev.  Albert  Hale. 

The  records  of  the  Session  read: 

Session  met  at  the  house  of  Mr.  Carpenter.  Present,  Mr.  John 
Wright,  moderator,  Philo  Carpenter,  B,  W.  Raymond  and  W.  H. 
Brown.  After  prayer,  on  motion,  resoh'ed  that  we  g"ive  a  call  to  the 
Rev.  Albert  Hale  to  become  the  pastor  of  this  church  at  a  salary  of 
$1,000,  pledging^  the  church  for  a  larger  sum  should  the  first  be 
insufficient. 

Mr.  Hale,  afterward  known  as  "Father  Hale,"  the 
friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  declined  the  invitation. 

Rev.  Flavel  Bascom  first  came  to  Chicag-o  on  his  wed- 
dings journey  in  July,  1833,^  and  was  invited  to  preach,  as 
Mr.  Porter  had  an  appointment  in  the  country.  Unwill- 
ing- to  accept  the  accommodations  at  Beaubien's  Hotel,  and 
finding-  Rufus  Brown's^  log-  boarding-  house  full,  he  was 
at  leng-th  induced  to  encamp  in  the  study  of  the  absent 
minister,  above  Peck's  store.  Provided  with  matches  and 
a  tallow  candle  by  Mr.  Brown's  family,  he  escorted  his 
bride  throug-h  the  prairie  grass  to  that  home  of  commerce 
and  piety,  and  in  the  pastor's  study,  furnished  with  calico 
hang-ing-s,  made  his  abode  while  in  Chicag-o.  On  Sunday 
he  preached,  in  the  carpenter  shop  at  the  fort,  the  first 
sermon  which  he  ever  delivered  in  Illinois.  The  text  was: 
"  Be  ye,  therefore,  perfect,  even  as  your  Father  which  is 
in  heaven  is  perfect." 

In  the  winter  of  1839-40,  Mr.  Bascom  came  to  Chicag"o 
as  an  ag-ent  of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society,  and 
beg-an  preaching-  for  the  First  Church,  "  having-  been  ex- 
cused from  traveling-  over  the  Illinois  prairies  in  winter." 
A  formal  call  was  extended  to  him  to  become  the  pastor  of 
the  church  at  a  meeting-  of  the  Session,  held  January  21, 
1840: 

Mr.  Bascom  having  vacated  the  chair,  Mr.  Carpenter  was  ap- 
pointed moderator,  when  it  was  voted  that  a  call  be  given,  in  pursu- 
ance of  a  vote  of  the  church  and  congregation,  to  the  Rev.  F.  Bascom 
to  become  the  pastor  of  this  church,  and  that  a  salary  of  $1,000  be  in- 
cluded in  said  call. 


'Historical  Sermon,  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  pa;je  23. 

2"  Most  of  the  members  of  my  orig-inal  church,"  says  Mr. Porter,  "except  those  in 
the  arm3%  were  of  this  family,  so  that  Mrs.  Brown  could  with  much  truth  say,  '  the 
church  that  is  in  my  house.'  "     ("  Earliest  Religious  History  of  Chicag'o,"  pag^e  58. 


18  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Mr.  Bascom  accepted  the  pastorate  "  with  the  under- 
standing that  he  mig-ht  do  missionary  work  during-  the 
summer."  He  was  installed  on  Sunday,  November  11, 1840. 

The  nine  years'  ministry  of  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom, 
D.D.,  covered  a  period  of  remarkable  growth  in  the  mem- 
bership and  affairs  of  the  church.  The  old  frame  meeting 
house  was  again  enlarged  by  increasing  its  width,  and,  as 
the  Society  was  now  in  a  condition  to  have  a  home  of  its  own, 
plans  vv'ere  under  consideration  for  a  permanent  building. 

May  7,  1844,  the  church  purchased  from  Samuel  and 
F.  A.  Russell,  all  of  lot  1  in  block  56,  Original  Town  of  Chi- 
cago, on  the  south  end  of  which  the  "Wooden  Church"  was 
then  standing.  Though  the  trustees  acquired  a  frontage 
of  eighty  feet  on  Washington  Street  and  one  hundred  and 
eight}'^  feet  on  Clark  Street,  the  space  was  not  suf&cient  to 
give  proper  light  and  ventilation  for  the  building  contem- 
plated. An  agreement  was  thereupon  entered  into  with 
Robert  Freeman,  whereby  title  was  acquired  to  the  east 
twenty-seven  feet  of  lot  2  in  block  56,  immediately  west 
of  and  adjoining  lot  1.  The  deed  from  Freeman  to  the 
church  trustees  was  recorded  December  19,  1849.  This 
made  a  total  frontage  of  one  hundred  and  seven  feet 
on  Washington  Street.  The  foundations  of  the  "Brick 
Church"  were  laid  in  1847,  and  in  September,  1849,  the 
building  was  dedicated.^  In  the  meantime  the  financesof  the 
Society  were  in  such  a  condition  that  it  became  necessary 
for  the  trustees  to  sell  a  portion  of  the  lot,  according  to  an 
advertisement  which  appeared  in  the  Daily  Tribune  of  July 
20,  1848 : 

VALUABLE   LOTS   FOR   SALE, 

The   south  fifty  feet,  fronting-  on   Clark  Street,  of 
lot  4  [should  be  lot  i — Author],  in  block  56,  being-  the 
same  on  which  the  old  building-  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  now  stands.     Terms  of  sale,  cash. 
By  order  of  the  board  of  trustees. 
Samuel  Howe,  Sea  clary.''- 


'  "  The  cost  of  the  building-  was  about  524,000,"  sa:  s  Dr.  Mitchell,  "and  a  serious 
debt  was  incurred,  which  greatly  embarrassed  the  Society." 

=  Mr.  Samuel  Howe,  an  early  member  o(  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade,  was  born 
at  York,  Pa.,  December  :^0,  1S12.  During-  his  life  of  thirty  years  in  Chicai^-o  he  was  an 
active  worker  in  the  interests  of  a  number  of  relisyious,  charitable  and  educational 
institutions;  amonsr  them  may  be  noted  the  Presbyterian  Theolog-ical  Seminary  of  the 


FIRS  T  PRESB  YTERIA  N  CHUR  CH.  19 

This  piece  of  ground,  including- the  portion  of  the  east 
twenty-seven  feet  of  lot  2,  immediately  in  the  rear  thereof, 
was  purchased  by  Mr.  Philip  F.  W.  Peck,  November  23, 
1848,  for  $1,850,  the  deed  being-  sig-ned  by  Sylvester  Lind^, 
Jabez  Barber-,  Sylvester  Marsh ^,  R.  C.  Bristol S  and 
Claudius  B.  Nelson^,  trustees. 

On  or  about  the  time  of  this  sale  it'was  discovered  that 
the  proceedings  and  certificates  of  election  of  the  church 
trustees  had  not  been  made  in  all  respects  according- to  the 
law.  A  special  act  of  the  leg'islature  wa.s  passed  Februar}'^ 
8, 1849,  leg-alizing-  all  former  acts  of  the  Society,  and  declar- 
ing- Sylvester  Lind,  Jabez  Barber,  R.  C.  Bristol,  Sylvester 
Marsh  and  Samuel  Howe,  who  were  elected  trustees 
February  22,  1848,  "to  be  the  leg-al  successors  in  office  of 
any  trustees  of  said  church  and  Society  at  any  time  here- 
tofore elected,  .  .  .  and  that  the  property  of  said 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicag-o  shall  vest  in  the 
above  named  trustees  and  their  successors  in  office,"  etc. 

Seven  years  later  it  became  necessary  for  the  church 
to  move  still  farther  south,  and  on  October  19,  1855,  the 

Northwest,  the  Half  Orphan  Asylum  and  the  Howe  mission.  Mr.  Howe  died  in  Oak 
Park  May  2, 1872. 

^  Mr.  Sylvester  Lind,  a  native  of  Scotland,  came  to  Chicag-o  in  1837,  and  for 
a  long-  time  was  engag^ed  in  the  lumber  business.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Session 
from  May  8,  1848,  until  January  7,  1856.  He  had  charge  of  the  rebuilding-  of  the 
"Wooden  Church"  on  Clark  Street  (about  1842),  during-  the  ministry  of  Rev.  Flavel 
Bascom.  Lind  University  was  named  for  him.  Mr.  Lind  died  at  Lake  Forest,  111., 
February  6, 18'32,  ag-ed  eighty-four. 

-  Mr.  Jabez  Barber  was  in  the  lumber  trade,  and  accumulated  a  large  fortune. 
He  was  clerk  of  the  Session  from  October  24,  1848,  until  November  29,  1849.  In  18SS  he, 
with  his  wife  and  one  child,  went  to  Europe,  embarking  on  the  return  voyage  at  Liver- 
pool January  23,  1856,  on  the  ill-fated  Collins'  Line  steamer  "  Pacific,"  which  was 
never  heard  from. 

^  Mr.  Sylvester  Marsh  came  to  Chicago  in  1834.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  the  packing 
business.  He  organized  the  White  Mountain  R.  R.  Co.  Died  at  Concord,  N.  H.,  De- 
cember 30, 18S4,  aged  eighty-one. 

*  Mr.  Richard  Clarke  Bristol  was  an  early  lake  captain;  an  insurance  agent  in  1842, 
and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Underwriters.  Before  that  time  he  was  engaged  in  the 
forwarding  and  commission  business  with  Mr.  Hibbard  Porter,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Bristol  &  Porter.     Mr.  Bristol  died  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  10,  1806,  aged  fiity-eight. 

^  Mr.  Claudius  Buchanan  Nelson  came  to  Chicago  in  1842,  and  entered  the  hardware 
firm  of  Blair  &  Stimson,  afterwr.rd  known  as  William  Blair  &  Co.  Later  he  became  a 
partner,  and  continued  with  this  firm  until  1881,  when  he  withdrew.  Mr.  Nelson  was 
received  into  the  membership  of  the  church  August  5,  1844,  by  letter  from  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Erie,  Pa.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Lake  Forest  Uni- 
versity, and  a  director  in  the  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary  of  the  Northwest;  died 
at  Hyde  Park,  March  29,  1885,  aged  sixty-five. 


20  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

trustees  entered  into  a  contract  for  the  sale  of  the  remain- 
ing" portion  of  this  g-round,  covering-  the  one  hundred  and 
seven  feet  frontag-e  on  Washington  Street  and  the  one 
hundred  and  thirty  feet  on  Clark  Street,  with  the  brick 
edifice,  to  Mr.  Hug-h  Maher^  at  a  price  of  $65,000.  Mr. 
Peck  purchased  this  contract  from  Mr.  Maher,  and 
received  a  deed,  dated  November  22,  1855,  sig-ned  by 
Charles  N.  Henderson, ^'Amzi  Benedict,'  Claudius  B.  Nel- 
son, Samuel  P.  Farring-ton*  and  Augustus  G.  Downs, 
trustees. 

The  heirs  of  the  Peck  estate  have  kindly  g-iven  me 
the  opportunity  of  examining-  the  two  deeds  conveying-  the 
church  property  to  Mr.  Philip  F.  W.  Peck,  documents  pre- 
pared by  Mr.  Peck  with  great  care.  He  wished  to  g-et  all 
the  title  the  church  had,  and  that  he  mig-ht  be  sure  he  was 
dealing-  with  the  people  calling-  themselves  the  First  Pres- 
byterian Church,  he  named  the  Society  in  the  body  of  the 
deed  in  four  distinct  w^ays : 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  and  Society  £>/ Chicago,  other- 
wise known  as 

The  Presbyterian  Church  and  Society  of  Chicago,  otherwise 
known  as 

The  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  otherwise  known  as 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  City  of  Chicago. 

This  property  is  now  the  site  of  the  Chicag-o  Opera 
House  building-.  After  the  Society  moved  to  Wabash  Ave- 
nue in  1857  the  "Brick  Church"  was  used  for  various  pur- 
poses. In  1858  it  was  occupied  by  the  Mechanics'  Institute. 
About  the  beo-inning-  of  the  war  it  was  converted  into  a 


1  Mr.  Hug-h  Maher,  a  native  of  Ireland,  came  to  Chlcag-o  in  1837.  He  was  one  ot 
the  boldest,  shrewdest  real  estate  operators  of  his  day.  "  At  one  time  he  owned  the 
entire  frontajre  of  both  sides  of  the  Chicago  River  from  Sixteenth  Street  to  Eig-hteenth 
street."     He  died  in  Hyde  Park,  January  22,  1884,  aged  sixty-six. 

2  The  name  of  Henderson  has  been  associated  with  the  boot  and  shoe  industry  of 
this  country  for  nearly  fifty  years.  Mr.  Charles  Nelson  Henderson  founded  the  firm  of 
C.  N.  Henderson  &  Co.  in  1852.  After  his  death,  January  4,  1859,  the  business  was  car- 
ried on  by  his  nephew,  under  the  name  of  C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.   . 

'  Mr.  A mzi  Benedict,  oneof  the  earlyjmerchants  in  the  dry  goods  trade  of  Chicago, 
was  received  into  the  fellowship  and  communion  of  this  church  September  17, 1849.  Mr. 
Benedict  now  lives  at  Latona,  Fla. 

*  Mr.  Samuel  Putnam  Farrington  was  born  at  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  January  29, 
1819.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  1850,  and  founded  a  wholesale  grocerj'  business,  continuing 
in  that  line  until  18S4,  when  he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  Minn.  He  was  received  into 
the  membership  of  the  church  July  5, 1862.    He  died  at  Minneapolis  May  7, 1897. 


Copyrighted,  1894,  by  Dibble  Publiihi.ig  Company.  CI  icag-o.  Reproduce.!  ny  c.nseiu  ot  Dibble  Fuhlishing-  Co. 

THE   FIRST    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH,   1857   ("THE   BRICK  CHURCH"). 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  2\ 

music  hall,  known  as  Smith  &  Nixon  Hall,  and  was  a  popu- 
lar place  for  concerts  and  lectures. 

The  "Brick  Church"  had  been  dedicated  in  Septem- 
ber, 1849,  and  soon  after,  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D.,  sev- 
ered his  connection  with  the  church.  The  Chicag-o  Weekly 
Democrat  of  December  4,  1849,  contains  this  parag-raph : 

On  Tuesday  evening-  last  the  Society  (First  Presbyterian 
Church)  met  and  called  Rev.  Georg-e  F.  Magoun,  of  Galena,  111.  Mr. 
Magoun  is  said  to  be  a  preacher  of  eminent  ability  and  fine  social 
accomplishments.  It  was  also  resolved  to  g-ive  to  Rev.  Dr.  Bascom, 
the  late  popular  pastor,  a  friendly  call  at  his  residence  on  Madison, 
between  Wells  and  Franklin  Streets,  on  Monday  evening-  nest. 

The  Sessional  record  of  the  year  1849  ends  with  this 
note: 

The  past  year,  full  of  mercies  and  testifying  to  the  forbearance 
and  long-  suffering  of  our  Saviour  Lord,  has  closed  upon  the  history 
of  this  church.  In  addition  to  the  numerous  vacancies  made  in  the 
church  rolls  by  dismissions  and  deaths,  especiallj'  b3'-  the  awful 
visitation  of  cholera,  the  church  has  to  record  the  separation  between 
themselves  and  their  esteemed  pastor.  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  who  was 
dismissed  at  his  own  request  on  the  4th  of  Decem.ber,  after  laboring 
among  them  with  much  acceptance  for  ten  years.  On  the  same  day 
a  call  was  forwarded  to  the  Rev.  George  F.  Magoun,  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Galena,  to  take  upon  himself  the  pastoral 
office  of  this  church;  and  Rev.  Mr.  Walker,  late  pastor  of  the  Third 
Presbyterian  Church  of  this  city,  was  invited  to  fill  the  pulpit  ad 
interun.  (Signed)         Sam'l  Brookes,  Clerk. 

The  invitation  to  Mr.  Mag-oun  v*'as  followed  by  the  ap- 
pointment of  deleg-ates  to  visit  him  and  urge  his  accept- 
ance. On  March  16,  1850,  another  invitation  was  sent  to 
Mr.  Mag-oun : 

The  church  and  Session,  having  resolved  to  send  a  second  invi- 
tation to  the  Rev.  George  F.  Magoun  to  become  pastor,  a  call  and 
letter  to  the  church  at  Galena  were  forwarded  per  mail.  The  income 
to  be  fourteen  hundred  dollars. 

As  Mr.  Magoun's  name  does  not  appear  ag^ain  in  the 
record,  the  call  from  the  First  Church  of  Chicag-o  must 
have  been  declined. 

Rev.  Harvey  Curtis  v/as  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the 
church  at  a  meeting  held  Monda3S  July  1,  1850: 

Session  met  after  a  full  meeting  of  the  church  and  coiigregation, 
at  which  a  vote  was  taken,  with  but  one  dissentient  voice,  to  call  the 


22  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Rev.  H.  Curtis,  of  Madison,  Indiana,  to  take  upon  himself  the  pas- 
toral office  of  this  church,  with  a  salary  of  $1,500  per  annum. 

Mr.  Curtis  beg-an  his  pastorate  Aug-ust  26,  1850,  ac- 
cording- to  the  record  of  a  Session  meeting  held  that  day. 
The  installation  services  of  Mr.  Curtis  are  thus  noted: 

On  Sabbath  Day,  October  7,  1850,  the  Rev.  H.  Curtis  v^^as  in- 
stalled as  pastor  over  this  church.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Patterson  preached 
the  sermon,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Goss  gave  the  charge  to  the  pastor,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Bascom  gave  the  charge  to  the  people,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Weed 
offered  the  prayer. 

The  first  part  of  Dr.  Curtis'  ministry  was  a  period  of 
trial  and  anxiety,  but  he  conducted  the  church  through 
those  perilous  times  "with  consummate  wisdom."  "He 
beg-an  his  labors  under  difficulties.  An  embarrassing  debt 
was  on  the  church.  There  were  painful  differences  among 
the  members  as  to  the  best  methodsof  anti-slavery  work." 

The  affairs  of  the  Society  were  in  such  a  state  at  this 
time  that  at  a  meeting  on  Thursday  evening,  September 
11, 1851,  "the  question  of  separation  and  division  of  church 
property  was  seriously  entertained."  At  a  joint  meeting- 
of  the  Session,  trustees  and  pastor,  on  Monday  evening, 
September  22,  the  matter  was  finally  "  left  in  the  hands  of 
the  Session,"  who  resolved,  on  October  27,  "that  a  separa- 
tion of  the  church  was  not  desirable  at  the  present  time." 

The  members  of  the  church  had  very  decided  views 
on  the  subject  of  slaverj^  as  may  be  seen  from  the  record 
of  a  meeting  on  January  3,  1853: 

The  first  Monday  in  the  New  Year  was  spent  by  the  church  in 
religious  exercises  and  review  of  God's  dealing  with  it  during  the 
past  year. 

The  following  declaration  of  sentiment  in  relation  to  some  of 
the  moral  questions  of  the  day,  in  which  Christian  feeling  is  deeply 
interested,  was  adopted. 

Passing- over  the  preamble,  which  declares  that,  "the 
will  of  God  as  revealed  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  is  the  only 
authoritative  and  infallible  rule  of  duty  to  all  mankind," 
and  article  I,  which  sets  forth  the  duty  of  Christians  and 
all  philanthropists,  "  to  abstain  from  and  discountenance 
in  others  all  violations  of  the  Sabbath  as  a  heaven  appointed 
day  of  rest,"  we    come  to  the  remaining  portion   of  the 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  23 

*'  declaration,"  the  discussion  of  which  had  for  a  long-  time 
threatened  the  very  existence  of  the  Society  : 

Article  II.  We  regard  the  system  of  American  Slavery  as  a 
gross  invasion  of  the  natural  rights  of  man  and  a  grievous  outrage 
upon  the  principles  of  that  civil  libertj'  we  enjoy  and  that  Protest- 
ant Christianity  we  profess,  amoral  wrong  which  must  be  offensive 
to  God,  and  which  is  most  injurious  to  the  temporal  prosperity  and 
happiness  and  to  the  spiritual  well  being  of  all  connected  with  it. 
And  for  its  speedy  overthrow,  we  invoke  the  co-operation  of  all 
humane  and  philanthropic  and  Christian  people,  and  the  interposi- 
tion of  Almighty  God. 

Article  III.  We  hold  the  recent  "Fugitive  Slave  Law  "  to  be  a 
palpable  violation  of  some  of  the  fundamental  principles  of  our  Fed- 
eral and  State  Constitutions  ;  and  opposed  to  the  natural  promptings 
of  humanity  and  the  precepts  of  Christianity,  and  as  such  v/e  shall 
not  cease  to  demand  and  labor  for  its  repeal. 

Article  IV.  We  regard  the  laws  of  this  State  in  respect  to  col- 
ored people  as  most  oppressive  and  needlessly  cruel,  and  altogether 
unworthy  of  a  free  and  generous  a,nd  Christian  people  ;  and  we  will 
heartily  co-operate  in  any  wise  and  effectual  means  for  their  repeal. 

Article  V  dealt  with  the  subject  of  intemperance. 
The  members  "hailed  the  passage  of  the  '  Maine  Liquor 
Law  '  as  a  wise  and  proper  and  effectual  means  of  suppress- 
ing" the  evil." 

In  consequence  of  dissension  on  the  slavery  question, 
twenty-six  members  withdrew  in  1842  to  form  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church. 

"  During  that  time,"  said  Dr.  Patterson^  in  his  address 
at  the  jubilee  celebration  of  the  Second  Church  in  1892, 
"there  was  a  further  development  in  the  church  of  extreme 
abolitionism  and  of  sympathy  with  what  was  then  st3ded 
Oberlin  Perfectionism,  which  led  to  a  distinct  and  visible 
growth  of  aggressive  and  conservative  parties."  It  led  to 
the  inauguration  of  "a  movement  for  the  establishment  of 
a  second  church,  where  the  more  conservative  Presbyterian 
families  of  the  city  might  find  and  enjoy  a  quiet,  religioi^.s 
home  suited  to  their  wishes  and  wants."  "I  have  said," 
continued  Dr.  Patterson,  "that  the  Second  Church  was  a: 
first  conservative  in  regard  to  the  slavery  question  and 
Christian  doctrine.  It  was,  hovvever,  alwa3^s  decidedly 
anti-slavery,    averse     to     revolutionary    action    on    that 

'  "History  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  Chicago,"  1892,  pages  269  and  270. 


24  ^   HISTORY  OF  THE 

subject.  On  these  accounts  the  pastor  and  the  church  were 
denounced  from  the  beginning-  as  pro-slavery,  and  it  was 
openly  claimed  that  all  the  piety  remained  in  the  mother 
church." 

Then  came  the  rupture  between  Cong-regfationalism 
and  Presbyterianism,  resulting  in  the  withdrawal  in  1852 
of  forty-eight  members  from  the  First  Church  for  the 
organization  of  Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  "At 
that  critical  epoch,"  said  Dr.  Patterson,  "it  was  confi- 
dently predicted  that  in  ten  years  there  would  not  be  a 
Presbyterian  Church  left  in  Chicago.  But  this  intense 
denominational  feeling  soon  abated,  and  Christian  comity 
prevailed,  as  it  has  continued  to  do  ever  since." 

The  withdrawals  from  the  First  Church  continued 
until  the  membership  had  declined  from  456  to  254.  May 
not  the  "declaration  of  sentiment"  of  January  3,  1853,  be 
regarded  as  a  shout  of  victory  from  the  survivors,  who, 
having  routed  all  their  opponents,  were  now  in  undisputed 
possession  of  the  field  ? 

Relieved  of  all  disturbing  elements,  the  church  entered 
once  more  on  a  season  of  prosperity,  and  was  greatly 
blessed  during  the  remaining  years  of  the  pastorate  of  Dr. 
Curtis.  The  membership,  which  had  been  depleted  fully 
one-half  by  this  "period  of  strife  and  rebuke,"  was  in- 
creased in  "the  v\/inter  and  spring  of  1852  by  a  gentle  but 
precious  season  of  spiritual  refreshing-." 

The  "Brick  Church"  was  sold  because  "it  was 
found,"  says  Dr.  Humphrey,^  "that  the  location  was  not 
good,  the  surrounding  population  being  driven  away  by  the 
encroachments  of  business,  and  the  place  becoming  con- 
stantly more  and  more  dusty  and  noisy.  At  the  same  time 
an  increase  of  chvirch  sittings  was  needed  to  supply  the 
wants  of  the  rapidly  increasingpopulation."  It  was  decided, 
after  paying  the  outstanding  indebtedness,  "  to  divide  the 
proceeds  in  such  a  manner  as  to  secure  the  speedy  erec- 
tion of  three  church  buildings  in  the  three  divisions  of  our 
city.  This  plan  was  carried  out  with  the  generous  hope 
that  the  members  on  the  West  Side  would  unite  with  the 


Historical  Sketch,  by  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D.,  1867,  pa?e  5. 


FIRS  T  PRESB  YTERIA  N  CHUR  CH.  25 

Third  Presbyterian  Church,  and  those  on  the  North  Side 
with  the  Westminster,  now  the  Fourth  Church." 

November  6,  1855,  the  trustees — Charles  N.  Hender- 
son, Claudius  B.  Nelson,  Samuel  P.  Farrington,  Aug-ustus 
Gould  Downs  and  Amzi  Benedict — purchased  from  Mr,  Carl- 
ton Drake  the  north  half  of  lot  8  in  block  10,  in  Fractional 
Section  15,  Addition  to  Chicag-o.  Six  months  later  to  a  day, 
May  6,  1856,  Mr.  Austin  Goodrich  conveyed  to  the  same 
trustees  the  south  half  of  said  lot  8,  makino-  a  total  front- 
ag-e  of  eig-hty  feet  on  Wabash  Avenue. '  The  cost  of  the 
entire  property  was  about  812,500. 

The  new  edifice  was  commenced  in  1856,  and  com- 
pleted in  October,  1857,  under  the  supervision  of  Eoying-- 
ton  &  Wheelock,  architects.^  The  Chicago  Daily  Press 
of  Friday,  October  16, 1857,  g'ives  the  following-  account  of 
the  dedicatory  services,  v/hich  took  place  on  the  previous 
evening-: 

Therewas  an  impressive  sermon  by  the  pastor.  Dr.  Curtis.  Mr. 
W.  H.  Currie,  the  accomplished  organist  of  St.  Paul's,  brought  out 
the  power  of  the  fine  organ  in  a  striking  manner.  Although  the 
weather  was  unfavorable,  there  was  a  large  audience  present.  The 
house  is  finely  lighted  by  day  through  the  rich  stained  glass  vvindows 
in  the  ceiling,  and  the  effect  of  gas  light  on  the  interior  at  night  is 
the  finest  possible. 

The  same  paper  in  their  issue  of  Monday,  October  19, 
1857,  gives  further  details  of  the  interior  finish  : 

The  pulpit  is  located  in  front  of  the  organ  gallery  (at  the  west 
end  of  the  church),  semi-octagon  in  form,  and  is  grained  in  imitation 

'  This  property  is  now  known  as  the  premises  Nos.  307-313  Wabash  avenue.  In 
1872  the  church  had  the  opportunit3-  of  seUing  this  land  at  $8U,000,  cash,  but  declined  the 
offer,  to  accept  one  of  $100,000,  of  which  520,000  was  in  cash  and  $80,000  in  deferred  pay- 
ments. It  was  the  expectation  at  the  time  (1872)  that  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  this 
property  wuul  :  pay  the  cost  of  the  new  edifice  at  the  comer  of  Indiana  Avenue  and 
Twenty-first  Street.  But  the  purchaser  could  not  even  pay  the  interest  on  the  deferred 
payments,  and  the  property,  after  some  j'ears,  reverted  to  the  Society.  In  the  mean- 
time a  mortgag-e  of  570,000  had  to  be  raised  on  the  Indiana  Avenue  edifice  for  its  comple- 
tion. The  Wabash  A  venue  lot  was  finally  sold  in  1S80  at  about  5400  per  front  foot.  As 
an  evidence  of  the  enormous  prov.th  in  real  estate  values  within  the  last  fifteen  years 
the  forty  feet  (one-half  of.the  old  church  lot),  covered  by  the  building-s  307  and  309  Wabash 
Avenue,  were  sold  in  1897  for  5150,000. 

2  Mr.  W.  W.  Boyino-ton  was  born  July  18,  1S22.  in  Southwick,  Mass..  came  to 
Chicag-o  in  1853,  and  died  at  Hig-hland  Park,  111.,  October  16,  18'18,  agred  sevent.v-six. 
He  built  the  St.  Paul's  Cniversafist  Church  (1856).  First  Presbyterian  Church  (1857), 
Wabash  Avenue  M.  E.  Church  (185S),  and  in  later  years  the  Board  of  Trade,  E.xposi- 
tion  buildinor,  Columbus  Memorial  and  i  ther  important  buildin.jrs.  He  was  Chicago's 
first  professional  architect. 

Otis  Leonard  Wheelock  died  at  San  Jose,  Cal..  January  23. 1893,  ag-ed  seventy-seven. 


26  ^  HISTORY  OF  THE 

of  Eng-lish  oak.  The  organ  is  a  splendid  instrument.  The  case,  or 
screen,  is  executed  in  the  same  style  of  architecture  as  the  other 
parts  of  the  house,  and  was  designed  by  the  architect  to  fill  the 
place  arrang-ed  for  it.  It  is  a  perfect  model.  The  instrument  is  one 
of  the  largest  first-class  org-ans  made  by  the  well  known  firm  of  Hall 
&  Labagh,  of  New  York  City.  The  case  of  the  organ  has  -been 
grained  to  correspond  with  the  pulpit  and  pews. 

The  Daily  Press  closes  its  articles  on  the  description 
of  the  church  with  this  notice  from  the  trustees,  reg-ard- 
ing  the  saleof  pews  to  be  held  on  the  evening- of  October  19  : 

In  view  of  the  favorable  circumstances  of  the  Society  and  the 
present  stringency  in  monetary  affairs,  and  wishing  to  place  it 
within  the  means  of  everj^  member  of  the  Society  to  purchase  a  seat, 
the  trustees  are  induced  to  oft'er  the  most  favorable  terms,  viz. :  Ten 
per  cent  cash,  ten  per  cent  in  three  months,  five  per  cent  in  six 
months,  and  the  balance  in  one,  two  and  three  years  from  day  of  sale, 
with  interest  at  ten  per  cent.     The  prices  of  pews  range  from  $25  to 


The  total  cost  of  the  land,  building-,  org-an  and  f  urnish- 
ing-s  was  about  $135,000. 

Early  in  the  year  1858  Dr.  Curtis  was  elected  pres- 
ident of  Knox  Colleg-e  at  Galesburg-,  111.,  and  on  the  even- 
ing- of  June  8  his  resig-nation  as  pastor  was  laid  before  a 
meeting-  of  the  church  and  cong-reg-ation.  A  resolution  of- 
fered by  Mr.  E.  S.  Wells  was  unanimously  adopted  : 

Resolved,  That  in  reviewing  the  past  eight  years  of  Christian 
labor,  counsel  and  fellowship  under  the  leadership  of  Dr.  Curtis  we 
can  see  how  kindly  have  been  the  dealings  of  God  with  us,  in  giving 
us  one  so  pre-eminently  qvialified  as  an  expounder  of  the  Bible,  a 
faithful  and  affectionate  pastor  and  sympathetic  friend. 

The  members  of  the  church  and  cong-reg-ation  met  on 
Monday  evening-,  July  12,  1858,  the  late  pastor.  Rev.  Har- 
vey Curtis,  D,D.,  acting-  as  moderator,  and  Mr.  J.  H. 
Brown  as  secretary,  and  unanimously  adopted  a  resolution 
offered  by  Mr,  S.  H.  Pierson  : 

That  the  Session  be  and  are  hereby  authorized  to  extend  an 
unanimous  call  to  Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuyler,  of  New  York  City,  to  be- 
come pastor  of  this  church. 

The  Session  and  trustees  met  on  the  following-  even- 
ing-, July  13,  and  appointed  Mr.  E.  S.  Wells  and  Mr.  Henry 
E.  Seelye  a  committee  to  visit  the  Rev.  Theodore  L. 
Cuvler  and   tender  him  the  call.     At  the  next  meeting- 


THE   FIRST   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH,  1859- 
WABASH  AVENUE,  NEAR   CONGRESS 

STREET. 
From  the  collection  of  Mr.  Frank  W.  Smith. 


WABASH     AVENUE      M.     E.     CHURCH,     18.^9 — N.    W.     CORNER 

HARRISON   STREET.      WITH  THE   FIRS  r   PRESBYTERIAN 

AND  ST.  PAUL'S  UNIVERSALIS!-   CHURCHES 

IN  THE  DISTANCE. 

From  the  collection  of  Mr.  Frank  W.  Smith. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  27 

Monday  evening-,  September  6,  the  committee  made  a  re- 
port that  it  was  doubtful  if  Mr.  Cuyler  would  accept  the 
invitation  to  become  pastor  of  this  church,  whereupon  a 
resolution  offered  by  Dr.  R.  C.  Hamill  was  adopted  : 

That  Rev.  Theodore  L.  Cuj-ler  be  advised  of  the  unanimity  of 
this  church  in  the  continuance  of  the  call,  and  that  a  committee  of 
five  be  appointed  to  draft  a  series  of  resolutions  expressive  of  the 
sense  of  this  meeting-. 

A  committee  v/as  thereupon  appointed,  consisting-  of 
H.  T.  Wilson,  Dr.  R.  Ludlam,'  J.  V/.  Smith,  J.  M.  Mather 
and  Georg-e  W.  Perkins,  who  broug-ht  in  a  report  before 
the  close  of  the  evening-,  which  was  in  substance  : 

That  the  committee  heretofore  appointed  to  confer  with  Mr. 
Cuyler  be  continued,  and  that  they  are  hereby  authorized  to  convey 
to  him  the  unanimous,  the  unqualified  and  earnest  assurance  of  this 
church  and  congregation  that  it  is  their  sincere  and  fervent  desire  to 
obtain  an  early  acceptance  of  their  call. 

Resolved,  That  it  is  still  the  unanimous  conviction  of  this  church 
that  God  in  His  Providence  has  designed  the  Rev.  Theodore  L. 
Cuyler  to  be  its  pastor. 

In  the  meantime  it  was  necessary  that  some  one  should 
act  as  pastor  of  the  church.  The  Session,  accordingly,  at 
a  meeting-  September  20,  invited  the  Rev.  S.  S.  Smith  to 
serve  as  temporary  supply  for  three  months  or  less,  com- 
mencing- October  1,  with  a  salary  at  the  rate  of  $2,000  per 
annum. 

Monday  evening-,  September  27,  the  orig-inal  committee 
who  were  appointed  to  wait  upon  Mr.  Cuyler  appeared 
before  the  church  and  cong-reg-ation  and  reported  : 

We  have  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Cuyler,  in  which  he  states 
that,  having  again  taken  the  matter  into  prayerful  consideration,  and 
carefully  weighed  the  importance  of  the  two  fields,  he  was  still  of 
the  opinion  that  the  interests  of  Christ's  kingdom  at  large  could  and 
would  be  better  promoted  without  a  change  of  field,  and  that  he 
must,  therefore,  decline  the  call   which  had   been  extended  to  him. 

The  name  of  Rev.  John  G.  Atterbury,  of  New  Albany, 
Ind.,  was  then  presented  by  Mr.  G.  H.  Hazelton  as  one  in 
every  way  qualified  to  become  pastor  of  the  church. 

Mr.S.  H.  Pierson  sugg-ested  the  name  of  Rev.  Dr.  Bur- 
chard,  of  New  York  City,  as  a  candidate  for  the  pastorate. 

•Dr.  Reuben  Ludlam,  Sr.,  president  of  Hahnemann  Colleg-e,  and  one  of  the  best 
known  surgeons  and  homeopathic  practitioners  in  America,  died  April  29,  1S99;  born 
at  Camden,  N.  J.,  in  1831;  g-raduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 


28  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

A  ballot  was  then  taken,  resulting"  in  eighty-seven  votes 
being-  cast,  of  which  thirty-three  were  for  Rev.  J.  G.  Atter- 
bury,  and  fifty-four  were  blanks. 

A  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  C.  A.  Norton  shows  that 
the  people  had  hopes  of  yet  securing  Mr,  Cuyler: 

Resolved,  That  the  orig:inal  committee  be  requested  to  again 
confer  with  Mr.  Cuyler,  and,  furthermore,  that  they  earnestly  en- 
treat Mr.  Cuyler  to  visit  the  church  before  the  matter  is  entirely 
dismissed  from  his  mind,  and  to  see  for  himself  what  are  the  wants 
of  the  church. 

"Early  in  the  month  of  October,"  says  Mr.  Henry  M. 
Curtis,  "Mr.  Cuyler  came  out  from  Brooklyn  and  preached 
for  us.     The  church  was  crowded  at  each  service." 

The  committee  reported  October  18: 

Tliat  they  had  conferred  with  Mr.  Cuyler,  and  that  there  was 
no  hope  of  his  accepting^  the  pastorate  of  the  cliurch. 

A  resolution  offered  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Smith  was  then 
adopted  : 

We  do  still  believe  that  God  has  some  good  man  in  reserve  for 
this  church,  and  that'the  only  way  to  secure  a  permanent  pastor  is 
to  refer  the  matter  to  the  Session;  that  the  Session  carefully  lool< 
into  the  qualifications  of  tlie  different  men  who  are  now  before  them^ 
or  who  may  be  suggested  to  them,  and  when  they  are  able  to  recom- 
mend the  name  of  one  who  will  not  only  be  acceptable  to  our  whole 
church,  but  who  also  manifests^a  willingness  to  accept  the  call,  that 
they  invite  him  to  preach  before  the  congreg^ation. 

Monday  evening,  April  4,  1859,  Mr.  F.  V.  Chamber- 
lain, on  behalf  of  the  Session,  reported  that  they  had  con- 
ferred with  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  of  Milwau'<?e;  that  as 
a  committee  they  had  heard  him  preach,  and  that  they 
were  of  the  opinion  that  "  the  best  interests  of  the  church 
and  the  cause  of  Christ  would  be  consulted  by  sending  a 
call  to  Mr.  Humphrey." 

An  informal  ballot  was  then  taken,  resulting  in  Mr. 
Humphrey  receiving  all  but  seven  votes.  On  the  regular 
ballot  which  followed,  he  was  unanimously  chosen  pastor 
and  "his  salary  fixed  at  $3,000  per  annum."  He  began  his 
labors  May  15,  1859. 

During  the  ministry  of  Dr.  Humphrey  the  towers  of 
the  church  building  on  Wabash  Avenue  were  completed. 
March  27, 1864,  a  new  brick  and  stone  building  for  the  use 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  29 

of  the  Railroad  Mission,  erected  at  a  cost  of  about  $18,000, 
was  appropriately  dedicated.  The  building-  stood  on  the 
east  side  of  Griswold  Street,  on  the  premises  now  known 
as  48  and  50  Pacific  Avenue.  A  new  chapel  was  built  at 
45  and  47  Cong-ress  Street,  and  was  dedicated  Sunday 
evening-,  June  2,  1867,  the  services  consisting-  of  the  usual 
opening  exercises,  followed  b}'^  addresses  from  Dr. 
Humphrey,  Mr.  Leonard  Swett,  Mr.  E.S.Wellsand  others. 

In  the  morning-  of  that  day,  June  2,  the  Second  Pres- 
byterian Church  celebrated  the  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of 
the  foundation  of  their  church  and  the  installation  of  its 
first  and,  up  to  that  time,  only  pastor.  Rev.  Robert  W. 
Patterson,  D.D. 

Dr.  Humphrey  tendered  his  resignation  Monday  even- 
ing, February  3, 1868,  to  accept  a  call  from  Calvary  Church, 
Philadelphia.  After  the  reading-  and  acceptance  of  his 
letter  of  resignation,  on  motion  of  Mr.  E.  S.  Wells,  a  reso- 
lution was  passed  requesting  the  Presbytery  "to  dissolve 
the  ecclesiastical  rehtions  so  long  and  pleasantly  existing 
between  the  people  and  the  pastor  of  this  church,  for  the 
reasons  represented  by  him." 

Mr.  S.  P.  Farrington  suggested  "that  the  salary  of 
the  pastor  be  continued  for  a  term  of  six  months  after  his 
leave,  to  g-ive  him  a  chance  to  recuperate  his  health  before 
entering-  upon  his  new  pastorate."  This  was  modified  by 
Mr.  J.  W.  Smith: 

Resolved^  That  the  salary  of  our  pastor,  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey. 
D.D.,  be  continued  for  six  months  from  March  1,  on  condition  that 
he  does  not  enter  upon  his  new  pastorate,  for  continued  active  ser- 
vice, until  after  that  time  (September  1). 

On  motion  of  Mr.  E.  V.  Robbins,  this  resolution  was 
adopted  unanimously. 

The  particulars  regarding  the  call  to  Rev.  Arthur 
Mitchell,  to  become  the  next  pastor  of  the  church,  are 
set  forth  in  the  records  of  the  Session.  At  a  meeting-  of 
the    Society,    July    10,     1868,    Messrs.   Allen,  ^    Brooks,  ^ 


'Mr.  William  T.  Allen  was  a  trustee  of  the  church  and  chairman  of  the  commit- 
tee on  music  from  1861  to  1870.     He  died  May  18,  1891. 

'Mr.  Joseph  P.  Brooks  came  to  Chicago  in  1854  and  identified  himself  with  the 
church  in  1864.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees,  and  at  the 
time  of  hi.s  death  was  treasurer  of  the  church.     He  died  suddenly  June  28,  1873,  aged 


30  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Robbins^  and  Walker  were  appointed  a  committee  to  act 
with  the  Session,  in  selecting*  some  one  to  present  to  the 
church  as  a  candidate  for  the  pastorship.  Several  names 
were  offered  for  consideration,  prominent  among-  them  be- 
ing- that  of  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  of  Morristown,  N.J.  The 
committee  visited  Morristown,  heard  Mr.  Mitchell  preach, 
and,  after  careful  consideration  of  his  qualifications, 
ag-reed  in  recommending-  him  as  their  choice.  An  unani- 
mous call  was  according-ly  extended  to  Mr.  Mitchell  by 
the  church,  to  become  its  pastor,  at  a  salary  of  $5,000  per 
year,  with  an  annual  vacation  of  six  weeks  and  an  allow- 
ance of  $1,000,  to   defray  his  expenses  in  removal. 

Mr.  Mitchell  visited  Chicago  before  coming-  to  a  deci- 
sion, and  on  Aug-ust  24  wrote  his  letter  of  acceptance.  He 
began  his  labors  October  25,  1868,  the  installation  services 
taking-  place  on  November  10  following-.  He  came  to  Chi- 
cago at  a  time  when  all  branches  of  the  church  work  were 
in  a  prosperous  condition.  Greater  interest  was  taken  in 
the  Sunday  School  and  missions  during-  the  three  years 
which  followed  his  arrival  than  at  any  time  since.  In  1868 
the  church  supported. five  mission  schools — the  Railroad, 
Foster,  Sands,  Indiana  Street  and  Archer  Avenue  Missions 
— all  of  which,  except  the  Railroad  Mission,  have  since 
been  transferred  to  the  care  of  other  churches.  The 
Church  School  in  1868,  or  thereabout,  numbered  from  325 
to  375  in  reg-ular  attendance,  and  the  Railroad  Chapel 
School  from  1868  to  the  time  of  the  fire  had  an  averag-e 
attendance  of  about  1,000.  If  the  interest  in  the  Church 
School  and  Railroad  Chapel  is  not  now  what  it  was 
in  1868,  it  is  not  from  any  indifference  on  the  part  of  the 
members  of  the  church.  It  is  due  entirely  to  the  changes 
caused  by  the  invasion  of  business,  rapid  transit  and  the 
development  of  attractive  suburbs. 

The  records  of  the  Session  contain  this  note  reg-arding- 
the  destruction  of  the  church  on  Wabash  Avenue  in  the 
g-reat  fire  of  October,  1871: 


forty-seven.     The   pallbearers  at  his  funeral  on  June  30  were  Dr.  Hitchcock,  Addison 
Ballard,  D.  W.  Irwin,  Franlf  C.  Wells,  Solomon  A.  Smith,  and  John  C.  Dore. 

'Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  V.  Robbins  now  reside  in  San  Francisco,  and  are  members  of 
Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  of  that  city. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  31 

On  Sunday,  October  8,  a  collection  was  taken  in  the  church  for 
the  benefit  of  the  sufferers  from  a  severe  conflagration  which  had 
visited  the  West  Side  on  Saturday  night.  It  was  Communion  Sun- 
day; none  realized  that  it  was  the  last  one  in  the  old  church,  around 
which  so  many  precious  memories  clustered.  That  night  a  fire 
broke  out  in  the  West  Division,  crossed  to  the  South  Side,  and  then 
to  the  North,  destroying  a  large  portion  of  the  city.  Early  on  Mon- 
day morning  our  beautiful  church  home,  as  well  as  its  beautiful 
chapel  and  the  Railroad  Mission  chapel,  was  destroyed.  Nothing 
was  saved  but  the  records  of  the  church,  the  Communion  service  and 
the  Sexton  library. 


32  A  HISTORY  OF 


CALVARY  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

When  Mr.  James  Otis,  father  of  the  author,  came  to 
Chicago  with  his  family,  in  1857,  they  attended  for  the  first 
year  the  South  Cong-reg-ational  Church,  then  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  Calumet  Avenue  and  Twenty-sixth  Street 
in  the  district  then  known  as  Carville.  The  car  works  of  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad  were  at  the  foot  of  Twenty-sixth 
Street,  between  the  street  now  known  as  South  Park 
Avenue  and  the  lake.  The  little  settlement  of  homes, 
stores  and  churches  which  g-rew  up  about  the  works,  was 
called  Carville.  In  the  following-  year  my  father  made  the 
acquaintance  of  Rev.  J.  Ambrose  Wight,  ^  pastor  of  the  Olivet 
Presbyterian  Church,  then  at  the  northwest  corner  of 
Wabash  Avenue  and  Twelfth  Street.  My  father  had  a  pew 
in  Olivet  Church  for  a  year  or  more,  until  the  project  of 
forming-  a  new  Presbyterian  Church  (Calvary)  began  to 
take  definite  shape,  an  enterprise  in  which  my  parents 
took  a  great  interest. 

The  records  of  Calvary  church,  now  in  my  possession, 
show  that  the  first  meeting  for  the  purpose  of  organization 
was  held  at  the  Protestant  Orphan  Asylum  on  Michigan 
Avenue,  on  the  evening  of  June  20,  1859.  Mr.  Ebenezer 
Jenkins  was  called  to  the  chair,  and  Mr.  James  Otis  was 
appointed  secretary.  The  meeting  adopted  a  resolution  to 
this  effect: 

That  in  view  of  the  rapid  increase  of  the  population;  in  view  of 
the  number  of  professing-  Christians  and  of  those  who  are  not,  who 
have  all  expressed  a  wish  that  a  Presbyterian  Church  should  be 
org-anized  in  this  part  of  the  city;  duty  to  the  Head  of  the  church, 
ourselves,  our  families  and  the  many  around  us,  demands  the  organi- 
zation of  this  church  at  the  earliest  practicable  moment. 

On  motion.  Rev.  F.  W.  Graves,  Mr.  Joseph  Meeker 
and  Mr.  Ebenezer  Jenkins  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
ascertain  the  names  of  all  who  were  desirous  of  uniting  in 
this  organization,  whether  as  members  of  other  churches 
or  on  profession  of  their  faith. 


1  Rev.  J.  Ambrose  Witrht   removed  from   Chicagro  to  Baj'  City,  Mich.,  in  1864, 
and  died  there,  November  T4,  1S89,  ajs^ed  seventi'-eiarht  years. 


MR.  JAMES  OTIS. 


CAL  VAR  Y  PRESS  YTERIAN  CHURCH.  33 

On  July  15  another  meeting-  was  held  for  the  purpose 
of  preparing-  a  petition  to  the  Presbytery  for  authority  to 
org-anize  the  church.  At  this  meeting-  Messrs.  Ebenezer 
Jenkins,  Bennett  B.  Chambers  and  James  Otis  were  elected 
elders. 

At  a  special  meeting-  of  the  Presbytery,  held  in  the 
Protestant  Orphan  Asylum,  July  19,  a  petition  was  pre- 
sented, sig-ned  by  Mr.  James  Otis  and  thirty-four  other 
persons,  asking-  that  the  new  Presbyterian  Church  be 
organized  under  the  name  of  the  Calvary  Presbyterian 
Church.  A  number  of  persons  presented  letters  of  dis- 
missal and  recommendation  from  other  churches,  as  wor- 
thy of  membership  in  the  new  church: 

FROM  THE  OLIVET  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   CHICAGO. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett  E.   Chambers.  » 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Meeker, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Otis. 
Miss  Mary  Clark. 

FROM  THE  SOUTH    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH,    CHICAGO. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Johnson. 
Miss  Maria  Johnson. 

FROM    the   first    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH,    CHICAGO. 

Mrs.  Ellen  Sloan, 
Miss  Maria  L.  Elmers. 

from  the  second    PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   CHICAGO. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Hamlin. 

from  the  north  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   BUFFALO,   N.  Y. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  P.   Sloan. 

FROM  THE  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH,   HORNELLSVILLE,    N.   Y. 

Mrs.  Susan  E.    Graves. 

FROM  THE  third  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH,   CHICAGO. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ebenezer  Jenkins. ^ 

FROM  THE  SOUTH  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH,   CHICAGO. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jesse  B.  Langdon. 


'  Mr.  Bennett  B.  Chambers  died  in  Chicaffo  March  29,  1868.  Mrs.  Mary  Eliza 
Chambers  died  in  Chicago  April  28,  1894. 

2  Elder  Ebenezer  Jenkins  was  the  g-randson  of  Captain  Ebenezer  Jenkins,  of  Col. 
Freeman's  Cape  Cod  regiment,  one  of  the  members  of  the  first  leg-islature  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Massachusetts.  He  was  the  fifth  Ebenezer  in  this  family,  descended  from 
John  Jenkins,  who  settled  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1634.  He  was  a  man  of  marked  piety, 
and  from  a  Pilgrim  line.  Elder  Jenkins  died  in  Chicag-o  October  9,  1873.  This  informa- 
tion is  furnished  by  his  nephew,  Rev.  H.  D.  Jenkins,  D.D.,  pastor  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


34  A  HISTORY  OF 

Among"  those  who  afterward  became  identified  with 
the  church  were: 

Mr.  Georg-e  G.  Allen  (died  November  '24,  1891),  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  Ailing-,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  George  K.  Amerman. 
(Dr.  Amerman  was  an  elder;  died  in  June,  1869.) 

Mr.  William  M.  Baker,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  N.  Bar- 
ker, Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  F.  Bacon,  Mrs.  Ann  Eliza 
Bowers,  Mrs.  Harriet  M.  Buell,  Mrs.  Betsy  Boilvin. 

Mr.   George    A.    Chambers  (died  October    19,   1895) 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  K.  Clark,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  W. 
Carrington. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  C.  Durand,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles 
Durand,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Calvin  Durand. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  M.  Gilchrist  (Mr.  Gilchrist  died 
October  10, 1883),  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Gilbert,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  W.  Griswold,  Mr.  Edward  P.  Griswold  (died 
January  18,  1899),  Mr.  William  O.  Goodman. 

Mrs.  Nancy  B.  Hawes,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Hollings- 
worth,^  Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  M.  Howe,  Mrs.  Jane  A.  Hurl- 
but. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  W.  Irwin. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  A.  Jones,  Miss  Harriet  G.  Jones 
(now  Mrs.  N.  Henry  Sabin,  of  Williamstown,  Mass.) 

Mrs.  Jane  Lancaster,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  Lord. 

Mr.  Townsend  MacCoun,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Willard  F. 
Myrick. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  O.  S.  Newell,  Miss  Harriet  Newell,  Mrs. 
Julia  A.  Newell,  Mr.  and  Mrs,  C.  F.  Nickson,  Hon.  and 
Mrs.  Jesse  O.  Norton,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  A.  B.  Newkirk. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frederick  R.  Otis,  Miss  Lorena  B.  Otis 
(afterward  Mrs.  C.  H.  Starkweather),  Miss  Adella  Otis 
(now  Mrs.  Henry  H.  Deming),  Mr.Philo  Adams  Otis,  Mr. 
Charles  Tillinghast  Otis. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry  E.  Phillips. 

^Mr.  James  Holling-sworth  was  born  October  3,  1811,  at  Wilming-ton,  Del.:  came 
to  Chicag-o  in  September,  1849.  He  was  elected  an  elder  in  the  First  Church  February 
22,  1853.  T^ater  he  withdrew  to  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church,  and  was  elected  an 
elder  in  that  Society  July  2",  1S59.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holling-sworth  were  dismissed,  b3' 
letter,  from  the  Third  Church  July  30,  18b'>,  and  admitted  to  the  membership  of  the 
Calvarj'  Presbyterian  Church.  After  the  consolidation  of  this  church  with  the  First 
Church,  Mr.  Hollini^sworth  was  again  elected  an  elder,  continuing-  in  ofiBce  until  his 
death,  January  25,  1889. 


CAL  VAR  Y  PRESB  YTERIAN  CHURCH.  35 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Leander  Reed,  Dr.  George  C.  Reynolds, 
Mrs.  M.  F.  Ripley,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Junius  Rog^ers. 

Prof,  and  Mrs.  Alonzo  Jesse  Sawyer,^  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Atwell  Spring-er  (Mr.  Spring-er  died  February  10, 
1899;  ag-ed  eig-hty-three  years),  Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  W.  Stewart, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  B.  Sherman. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  B.  W.  Thomas,  Miss  Thomas. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  Walling-ford,  Mr.  H.  J.  Walling-ford, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  M.  Wilmarth  (,Mr.  Wilmarth  died  Feb- 
ruary 27,  1885),  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Wrig-ht,  Mr.  Albert 
Wilcox,  Mr.  Philo  Adams  Wilbor,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Henry 
Wood. 

For  a  year  or  more  the  members  of  the  new  church 
worshiped  in  the  school  room  of  the  Orphan  Asylum. 

Rev.  Frederick  William  Graves,  the  first  pastor  of 
Calvary  Church,  was  born  at  Leverett,  Mass.,  March  9, 
1805.  His  father.  Colonel  Rufus  Graves,  was  one  of  the 
founders  (1825)  of  Amherst  Colleg-e,  and  it  was  for  him  the 
Graves  professorship  was  named.  It  is  worthy  of  note 
that  Dr.  Zephaniah  Moore,  for  whom  Rev.  Zephaniah  Moore 
Humphrey  was  named,  was  the  first  president  of  Amherst, 
and  that  the  Rev.  Frederick  William  Graves  was  a  member 
of  the  first  class  g-raduated  from  this  honored  institution. 
After  leaving-  colleg-e  he  spent  eig-hteen  months  in  teaching-, 
and  in  the  autumn  of  1829  entered  the  Theolog-ical  Seminary 
at  Andover,  g-raduating-  in  1833.  He  was  licensed  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  and  after  preaching-  one  year 
to  the  First  Free  Church  of  Lockport,  N.  Y.,  he  removed 
in  1835,  to  accept  the  pastorate  of  the  church  at  Alton,  111. 
It  was  during-  his  ministry  there  that  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Love- 
joy  was  murdered.  Owing-  to  the  terrible  state  of  affairs 
following-  the  martyrdom  of  Lovejoy,  Mr.  Graves  reg-arded 

^  Mr.  Alonzo  Jesse  Sawyer,  professor  of  mathematics  and  astronomy  in  the  old 
University  of  Chicafro  (18S9  to  about  1S70),  was  born  in  1819  at  Crown  Point,  Essex 
county.  New  York.  He  came  to  Chicag-o  in  1853  and  was  eng-ag-ed  as  principal  of  an 
English  classical  and  high  school,  which  met  in  the  basement  of  the  "  Brick  Church  " 
(corner  of  Washington  and  Clark  Streets).  This  school  had  been  org-anized  two  or  three 
years  previously,  and  i;s  first  teacher  was  iVIr.  D.  H.  Temple.  Professor  Sawyer  was 
an  elder  in  Calvary  Church,  a  member  of  the  music  committee,  and,  havinR-  a  profound 
knowledge  of  the  Bible,  taught  the  Bible  class  for  several  years.  Hon.  Philetus  Sawj'er, 
ex-senator  from  Wisconsin,  is  his  brother.  Mr.  Elihu  Burritt,  the  reformer  and  "  learned 
blacksmith,"  who  died  November  10,  1879,  was  his  brother-in-law.  Professor  Sawyer  died 
in  Chicago  September  16,  1882. 


36  A  HISTORY  OF 

it  his  duty  to  leave  Alton.  In  the  following-  year  he  re- 
turned east,  where  many  churches  and  ministers  were 
greatly  helped  by  him  in  promoting-  revivals  of  religion. 
Thus  he  labored  for  some  nine  weeks  in  the  Fourth 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Albany,  and  afterward  with 
churches  in  Buffalo,  Elmira,  Corning  and  Philadelphia.  For 
a  year  he  traveled  over  the  greater  part  of  the  state  of  New 
York  lecturing  in  the  interest  of  the  temperance  reform. 
After  leaving  Chicag^o,  where  he  was  pastor  of  Calvary 
Church  from  June,  1859,  to  June,  1860,  Mr.  Graves  accepted 
a  position  with  the  Christian  Commission,  doing  much  good 
in  the  hospitals  during  the  war.  He  died  of  consumption 
at  Canandaigua,  N.  Y,,  December  8,  1864,  and  was  buried 
at  Corning,  where,  in  1834,  he  had  married  Miss  Susan 
Hayt,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  John  C.  Hayt,  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Graves'  son.  Major  E.  P.  Graves,  of  Corning,  has 
kindly  furnished  many  of  the  foregoing  particulars. 

During  the  summer  of  1860  a  lot  had  been  purchased 
on  the  west  side  of  Indiana  Avenue,  midway  between  Ring- 
gold and  Palo  Alto  Places  (now  Twenty-second  and 
Twenty-third  Streets)  on  which  the  Society  began  the 
erection  of  a  frame  church,  under  the  charge  of  Messrs. 
James  Otis  and  Ebenezer  Jenkins,  building  committee. 
The  new  building  was  about  completed  when  Rev.  Edward 
Anderson,  the  second  pastor,  began  his  labors,  in  the 
autumn  of  1860.  The  records  of  the  Session  meeting  held 
October  27,  1860,  speak  of  the  dedication  of  this  building: 

On  motion  it  was  resolved  to  hold  the  dedicatory  services  in  our 
new  house  of  worship  on  the  eleventh  day  of  November  next  at  7:30 
p.  M.,  and  that  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D.,  be  invited  to  deliver 
the  dedicatory  sermon,  Rev,  Arthur  Swazey  to  act  as  alternate. 

Rev.  Edward  Anderson,  in  a  letter  dated  November  17, 
1898,  at  his  present  home  in  Quincy,  Mass.,  gives  a  few 
facts  reg-arding  his  life  work.  He  was  born  in  Boston, 
November  19,  1833,  his  father,  Rev.  Rufus  Anderson,  D.D., 
LL.D.,  being  for  many  years  foreign  secretary  of  the 
American  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Foreign  Missions. 
Mr.  Anderson  was  educated  in  and  about  Boston.  When 
only  twenty  years  of  ag^e,  he  went  to  Kansas  with  the 
Massachusetts  men,  and  was  in  every  important  engagement 


CA7^  VAR  Y  PRESB  YTERIAN  CHUR CB.  37 

there  with  John  Brown  and  General  "Jim"  Lane. 
After  his  ordination  as  a  minister  in  1858,  he  was  called  in 
1860  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  St. 
Joseph,  Mich.,  from  whence  he  removed  to  Chicag-o  in 
October  of  that  year  to  take  the  pastorate  of  Calvary 
Church.  He  resigned  in  July,  1861,  to  accept  the  chap- 
laincy of  the  Thirty-seventh  reg-iment  of  the  Illinois  Volun- 
teer Infantry.  Later  Mr.  Anderson  raised  three  regiments 
in  Indiana,  in  one  of  which,  the  Twelfth  Cavalry,  he  served 
as  colonel  until  the  end  of  the  war.  In  recent  years  Mr. 
Anderson  is  better  known  as  the  author  of  a  collection  of 
short  sketches  entitled  "Camp  Fire  Stories,"  in  which  are 
set  forth  in  a  picturesqueway  the  variousscenesof  army  life. 

After  Chicag-o  and  our  old  church  [says  Mr.  Anderson] 
my  principal  pastorates  were  Jamestown,  N.  Y. ;  Quinc3',  111. ; 
Westminster  Presbyterian  Church,  Toledo,  Ohio;  Columbus,  Ohio; 
Norwalk  and  Danielson,  Conn.  I  have  now  practically  retired  from 
pastoral  work,  though  I  am  preaching  at  the  Washington  Street 
Church  here,  trying   to  build  it  up.      I  am  engaged  in  literary  work. 

After  Mr.  Anderson  went  away  the  pulpit  of  Calvary 
Church  was  supplied  by  different  ministers.  It  was  not 
uncommon  when  vSunday  morning-  came,  and  no  minister 
had  been  secured,  for  one  of  the  elders  to  conduct  the 
services.  A  member  of  the  pastoral  committee  would 
often  visit  the  hotels  on  Saturdays  to  look  over  the  regis- 
ters and  thus  secure  a  minister,  if  possible. 

During  theyearl862thesocietypurchased  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  Indiana  Avenue  and  Ringgold  Place  (now 
Twenty-second  Street),  a  lot  having  a  frontage  of  ninety- 
eight  feet  on  Indiana  Avenue  and  one  hundred  and  seventy- 
eight  and  one-half  feet  on  Ringgold  Place,  for  a  consider- 
ation of  $4,500.  The  east  seventy-eight  feet  of  this  lot 
was  subsequently  sold,  leaving  a  frontage  of  one  hundred 
and  three  and  one-half  feet  on  Ringgold  Place.  The 
church  building  was  moved  to  the  new  location,  its  length 
increased  and  a  brick  basement  constructed,  thus  giving 
accommodation  for  the  Sunda}^  School,  prayer  meeting  and 
pastor's  study. 

In  the  meantime  Rev.  James  Hewit  Trowbridge  had 
commenced  his  labors  as  third  pastor.     Mr.  Trowbridge 


38  -4  HISTORY  OF 

was  born  at  Plattsburg-h,  N.  Y.,  May  27,  1820.  He  was 
graduated  from  Middlebury  Colleg^e,  Vermont,  in  1847, 
and  then  studied  theolog-y  at  Union  Seminary  and  in  New 
Haven  under  Dr.  W.  W.  Taylor,  g^raduating-  in  1850.  From 
1850  to  1854  Mr.  Trowbridge  preached  in  North  Haver- 
shaw,  N.  Y.;  from  1854  to  1856,  in  Marshall,  Mich.; 
from  1856  to  1862,  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  He  accepted  a  call 
to  the  pastorate  of  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Chi- 
cago, in  the  autumn  of  1861,  beginning-  his  duties  January 
IS,  1862,  the  installation  services  taking  place  in  March, 
1863.  He  tendered  his  resignation  in  March,  1865,  and 
was  appointed  district  secretary  of  the  New  School 
Committee  on  Home  Missions,  and  continued  in  this  work 
until  1870,  when  the  office  was  abolished  at  the  reunion  of 
the  Old  and  New  School  Churches.  His  old  friend.  Rev. 
Georg-e  C.  Noyes,  D.D.,  says  of  his  further  work:  "Mr. 
Trowbridge  was  one  of  the  chief  workers  in  org-anizing 
the  Presbyterian  League.  He  was  for  a  time  editor  of  the 
Interior,  a  paper  which  he,  more  than  any  other  man,  was 
instrumental  in  establishing-,  and  to  which  he  gave  the 
name.  He  was  pastor  of  the  church  in  Riverside  from  1873 
to  1885.  The  last  work  of  his  life  was  in  the  Reunion 
Church  (now  the  Ninth  Presbyterian).  At  the  request  of 
the  Home  Missions  Committee  he  undertook  with  energ-}- 
the  difficult  task  of  buildings  up  this  church,  which 
was  discoura,g-ed  by  its  long  strug-gle  with  debt  and  dis- 
aster. In  the  midst  of  these  labors  he  was  arrested  by 
the  messenger  which  summoned  him  to  his  reward."  Mr. 
Trowbridge  died  at  Riverside,  111.,  January  9,  1887.  His 
widow,  Mrs.  Alice  L.  M.  Trowbrldg-e,  a  daughter  of  the 
late  Hon.  R.  B.  Mason,  now  resides  in  Chicag-o. 

It  will  always  be  a  source  of  much  regret  to  me  that 
I  never  had  the  opportunity  of  meeting  Rev.  Edward 
Arthur  Pierce,  who  was  the  fourth  pastor  of  Calvary 
Church.  During  the  two  years  of  his  pastorate  I  was  ab- 
sent from  Chicago,  and  did  not  return  until  some  time 
after  his  death.  Mr.  Pierce  was  born  at  Woodbury,  Conn., 
September  15,  1835.  Two  years  later  the  family  removed 
to  Tallmadge,   Summit  County,  Ohio.       He  entered  the 


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sophomore  class  of  Williams  College  in  1855,  g-i-aduating- 
in  1857.  After  a  three  years'  course  at  the  Theolog-ical 
Seminary  of  East  Windsor  Hill,  Conn.,  he  visited  Chicag-o 
in  1861,  and  was  cnlled  to  the  pastorate  of  Westminster 
Presbyterian  Church,  v/here  he  labored  from  December, 
1861,  until  November,  1865.  Mr.  Pierce  was  chosen  pastor 
of  Calvary  Church  October  24,  1865,  and  sent  his  letter  of 
acceptance  November  24  following-,  the  installation  serv- 
ices taking  place  December  22.  In  consequence  of  ill 
health  he  was  granted  nine  months'  leave  of  absence  on 
December  1,  1867,  and  started  south  immediately,  hoping 
that  a  warmer  climate  would  be  beneficial.  He  died  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1868,  at  Tallahassee,  Fla.  His  widow,  now  Mrs. 
Emily  A.  Taylor,  resides  in  Philadelphia. 

The  communion  table  and  two  chairs,  with  the  three 
pulpit  chairs  in  the  present  edifice,  were  the  gift  of  Mrs. 
Taylor. 

Some  time  elapsed  before  the  selection  of  a  new  pastor. 
When  Mr.  Pierce  was  given  leave  of  absence  in  December, 

1867,  Rev.  W.  C.  Dickinson  was  appointed  pulpit  supply. 
He  was  so  highly  esteemed  by  the  church  that  on  May  26, 

1868,  an  unanimous  call  was  extended  to  him  to  become  its 
pastor  ;  but  he  did  not  think  it  best  to  accept.^ 

Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D.,  who  was  at  this  time  in  charge 
of  the  South  Congregational  Church  of  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
received,  April  5,  1869,  a  formal  invitation  from  Calvary 
Church  to  become  its  (fifth)  pastor.  In  aletter  of  Decem- 
ber 15,  1898,  written  at  Jordansville,  Herkimer  County, 
N.  Y.,  where  his  home  had  then  been  for  eighteen  years, 
Dr.  Lord  has  given  me  some  particulars  of  his  life  and 
pastoral  work : 

I  was  born  in  New  York  City  April  21,  1821;  entered  the  sopho- 
more class  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  January,  1842,  and 
was  grraduated  from  Rutgers  College,  in  1847.  I  studied  theology  in 
the  seminary  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  of  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
In  1864-1865  I  was  a  member  of  the  United  States  Sanitary  Commis- 
sion. My  pastorates  have  been  with  the  First  Reformed  Dutch  churches 
of   Piermont,  Nyaclc   and  Jersey    City.     While   pastor  of  the    South 

1  Rev.  V/illiam  Covvper  Dickiuson  was  born  January  ZO,  1817,  in  Longmeadow, 
Mass.,  and  died  in  Evanston,  111.,  March  12,189').  The  org-p.nist.  Mr.  Clarence  Dickin- 
son, o{  Chicag'i),  is  his  son. 


40  ^   HISTORY  OF 

Congreg'ational  Church  of  Bridg-eport,  Conn.,  I  received  in  1869  three 
calls  almost  simultaneously,  from  the  Third  Presbyterian,  Fuller- 
ton  Avenue,  and  Calvary  Presbyterian  churches  of  Chicag-o.  I  ac- 
cepted the  call  from  the  latter  church,  and  was  its  pastor  until  the 
absorption  of  its  members  by  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  after  the 
great  fire  of  1871.  On  giving-  up  my  work  with  Calvary  Church,  I 
turned  to  the  study  of  medicine,  and  was  graduated  from  the  Chi- 
cago Medical  College  in  1873.  Later  I  was  appointed  pliysician  in 
chief  of  tile  South  Side  Dispensary.  I  was  for  a  time  professor  of 
natural  sciences  in  Rockland  County  Institute.  I  am  now  meeting 
a  handful  of  my  old  friends  and  neighbors  on  Sundajj^  morning  in  a 
little  box  we  call  Christ  Church.  On  some  accounts  missionary 
work  is  needed  here  ( Jordansville)  as  much  as  in  South  Africa.  I 
am  happy  with  my  work  and  people. 

Dr.  Lord  died  on  Sabbath  morntng,  September  10, 
1899,  in  his  pulpit  at  Jordansville.  He  had  just  finished 
his  sermon,  and  was  making-  some  announcements,  when 
he  was  stricken  with  apoplexy,  fell  to  the  floor,  and 
died  in  a  few  moments,  without  regaining-  consciousness. 

Dr.  Lord  possessed  tlie  charm  and  power  of  extemporaneous 
address,  a  tender  spirituality  and  a  finished  culture.  So  attractive 
was  his  personalit3''  that  the  distinguished  Roman  prelate.  Arch- 
bishop Ireland,  meeting  him  on  shipboard,  was  so  impressed  and 
won  that  in  recording  his  travels  for  publication  he  could  not  refrain 
from  making  appreciative  mention  of  his  Protestant  fellow-traveler. 
Dr.  Lord's  death  was  most  fitting.  It  was  an  ascension  front  the 
high  places  of  his  power  and  joy. ' 

The  steady  growth  of  the  church  under  its  sev^eral 
pastors  received  such  a  marked  impetus  after  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Lord  was  called  to  the  pastorate,  that  it  was  soon 
evident  that  a  larg-er  church  edifice  was  needed.  June  6, 
1870,  the  trustees  of  Calvary  Church  purchased  from  the 
Trinity  M.  E.  Church,  for  a  consideration  of  $33,000,  the 
northeast  corner  of  Indiana  Avenue  and  Twenty-first 
Street,  being-  a  part  of  lots  15  and  18,  in  block  4,  in 
Georg-e  Smith's  Addition  to  Chicag-o,  having-  a  frontag-e 
of  ninety-eight  feet  on  Indiana  Avenue  and  a  depth  of  one 
hundred  and  seventy-eight  feet  on  Twenty-first  Street. 
The  premises  were  at  this  time  (1870)  occupied  by  the 
stone  edifice  of  Trinity  Church.  Subsequently  the  east 
twenty-three    feet   of    this  lot,  together   with   the   brick 


'Thp  fitti-n'or,  Chicago,  September,  tS'J' 


CAL  VAR V  FRESH  YTERIAN  CHURCH.  41 

house  (now  66  Twenty-first  Street)  were  sold  by  Calvary 
Church  for  $5,000.  In  order  to  make  this  new  purchase  it 
was  necessary  for  the  trustees  to  dispose  of  the  former 
lot  and  building-  at  the  corner  of  Twenty-second  Street. 
This  property  was  sold  by  Calvary  Church  to  Mr.  Harvey 
M.  Thompson,  by  deed  bearing-  date  August  6,  1870,  for  a 
consideration  of  $26,750.^ 

Preparations  for  the  erection  of  a  new  church  were 
commenced  immediately ;  the  old  building-  of  Trinity 
Church  was  taken  down,  and  the  new  edifice  of  Calvary 
Church  was  begun  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  J.  C.  Coch- 
rane,^ architect.  The  corner  stone  was  laid  in  November, 
1870.  Little  or  no  prog-ress  was  made  that  winter,  but 
work  was  resumed  in  the  spring-,  with  the  expectation 
that  the  basement  would  be  completed  before  the  autumn, 
and  ready  for  church  services.  In  the  meantime  the  Society 
continued  to  hold  services  in  the  old  frame  building-  at  the 
corner  of  Twenty-second  Street. 

Sunday,  October  8,  and  Monday,  October  9,  1871,  will 
never  be  forgotten  by  those  who  were  here  and  witnessed 
the  terrible  scenes  that  occurred.  After  the  morning  ser- 
vice at  Calvary  Church,  in  company  with  other  members 
of  the  choir,  I  visited  the  new  building  at  the  corner  of 
Twenty-first  Street.  The  west,  north  and  south  walls 
were  completed,  but  the  east  wall  had  not  been  carried  to 
the  finish.  The  trusses  supporting  the  roof  were  in  posi- 
tion and  some  of  the  roof  boards  on,  but  the  interior  was 
filled  with  scaffolding  and  builders'  material.  An  organ 
committee  had  already  been  appointed,  consisting-  of  Mr. 
Henry  Wood,  Mr.  Georg-e  F.  Bacon  and  myself.  We  had 
practically  decided  on  the  firm  of  Messrs.  Hook  &  Hasting-s, 
of  Boston,  as  the  builders,  and  were  then  considering  some 
plans  and  specifications  they  had  submitted.  On  this 
Sunday  morning-  Mr.  Bacon  and  I  climbed  to  the  main  floor 


•These  premises  were  conveyed  bj-  Mr.  H.  M.  Thompson  to  Messrs.  Daniel  A. 
Jones  and  Leonard  Hodges,  by  deed  dated  August  6,  1871.  This  lot  is  now  a  part  of  the 
site  of  the  present  "  Hodges  Block." 

^Mr.  John  Crambie  Cochrane  built  the  Church  of  the  Messiah,  Jefferson  Park 
Church,  Cook  County  and  Michael  Reese  Hospitals,  and  the  Iowa  and  Illinois  State 
Capitols.     Mr.  Cochrane  difd  in  Chicago  November  13,  1887. 


42  A  HISTORY  OF 

of  the  building'  to  note  the  position  that  the  org-an  was  to 
occupy. 

As  our  church  was  closed  that  evening",  I  attended  ser- 
vice at  Grace  Episcopal  Church.  When  the  cong-regation 
had  been  dismissed  and  was  passing  out,  every  one  observed 
that  the  western  sky  was  flaming  red  and  that  a  fire  was 
in  progress.  There  had  been  an  extensive  fire  the  night 
before  (Saturday)  in  a  district  of  the  West  Side,  filled  with 
lumber  yards  and  frame  buildings,  and  some  apprehension 
was  felt  on  that  Sunday  as  to  the  consequences  which  might 
result  if  another  fire  should  break  out  in  the  same  locality. 
But  no  one  even  dreamed  of  the  awTui  scenes  of  desolation 
we  were  to  witness  in  the  morning:  churches,  homes, 
offices,  banks,  warehouses,  all  in  ruins. 

Plymouth  Congregational  Church  (at  the  corner  of 
Wabash  Avenue  and  Harmon  Court)  and  Grace  Episcopal 
Church  were  not  in  the  line  of  the  fire,  and  thus  escaped. 
But  every  church  between  Cong-ress  Street  and  Lincoln 
Park  was  destroyed,  thus  entailing-  enormous  losses  on 
religious  societies. 

There  were  at  this  time  (1871)  in  the  district  between 
Twenty-second  Street  and  the  river  four  Presbyterian 
Churches — the  First,  Second,  Olivet  and  Calvary.  Strictly 
speaking-,  there  were  but  three,  as  the  Second  Church  had 
already  effected  a  union  with  the  Olivet  Church, and  had  held 
its  first  services  with  that  Society  on  the  day  of  the  fire. 

The  First  Presbyterian  Church  having-  lost  its  home, 
and  the  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  with  a  iit  \  build- 
ing barely  started,  concluded  for  their  mutual  interests 
also  to  consolidate. 

Thus  four  strong  org-anizations,  all  having-  larg-e  con- 
gregations in  attendance,  each  doing-  a  great  work,  were 
welded  into  two.  At  the  time  it  seemed  as  though  these 
consolidations  meant  a  great  loss  to  Presbyterian  in- 
terests. At  all  events,  the  members  of  the  Presbytery 
took  that  view,  for  their  consent  to  the  consolidation  of  the 
First  Church  with  Calvary  Church  was  only  granted  after 
long-  and  serious  consideration. 

The   affairs  of  Calvarv  Church  at  this  time  were  in 


THE  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH— N.   E.    CORNER    INDIANA   AVENUE 
AND  TWENTY-FIRST  STREET. 


CAL  VAR  V  PRESS  YTERIAN  CHURCH.  43 

such  a  condiuon  that  no  other  course  but  a  union  with  the 
First  Church  seemed  pi-acticable.  It  had  undertaken  the 
erection  of  a  costly  edifice;  the  members  had  suffered 
heavy  losses  by  reason  of  the  fire,  and  it  was  evident  that 
the  building-  could  only  be  completed  by  heavily  mort- 
g-aging-  the  property.  It  was  furthermore  apparent  that 
the  First  and  Second  Churches  would  both  be  ultimately 
located  in  its  neighborhood,  thereby  interfering  with  its 
future  usefulness.  What  other  course  but  a  consolidation 
with  the  First  Church  was  open  to  the  people  of  Calvary 
Church?  Subsequent  events  have  fully  sustained  the 
sound  judgment  and  forethought  of  thor,e  who  had  these 
interests  at  heart. 

On  Sunday  afternoon,  October  15,  toe  members  of  the 
old  First  Church  g-athered  together  for  worship  in  Christ 
Reformed  Episcopal  Church.  At  a  meeting  of  the  mem- 
bers of  Calvary  Church,  held  October  17,  a  committee  was 
appointed  to  confer  with  the  Session  of  the  First  Church, 
on  the  subject  of  uniting.  Its  members  were  Messrs. 
James  Otis,  Daniel  A.  Jones,  G.  S.  Ingraham,  Henry 
Wood  and  Joseph  N.  Barker.  At  a  subsequent  meeting 
Hon.  Jesse  O.  Norton  was  added  to  the  committee. 

At  a  joint  meeting  of  the  committee  from  Calvary 
Church  and  the  Session  of  the  First  Church,  held  at  the 
residence  of  Mr.  George  F.  Bissell,  on  Friday  evening, 
October  27,  a  basis  of  union  was  agreed  upon: 

(1).  The  name  of  the  united  church  shall  be  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  of  Chicago,  and  the  present  pastor  of  the  First  Church, 
Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  shrill  be  the  pastor  of  the  united  church. 
(2.)  The  united  church  shall  pay  to  Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D., 
the  present  pastor  of  Calvary  Church,  the  sum  of  Twenty-five  Hun- 
dred Dollars  ($2,500.00)  and  Calvary  Church  shall  be  allowed  to 
divert  $2,500  from  the  amount  subscribed  towards  the  building-  of  the 
church  edifice,  before  making  over  their  personal  property  to  the 
First  Church, 

Or,  that  in  lieu  of  the  above  payment  of  Five  Thousand  Dollars 
($5,000.00),  if  Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D.,  shall  so  elect,  the  united 
churches  will  pay  him  a  salary  of  Twenty-five  Hundred  Dollars 
($2,500.00)  per  year,  for  two  years,  provided  he  will  take  charge  of 
the  Forty-first  Street  Presbyterian  Church;  Dr.  Lord  to  receive  such 
additional  salary  as  said  church  may  be  able  to  pa3'^. 


44  A  HISTORY  OF 

(3.)  That  all  the  property,  real  and  personal,  of  the  two 
churches  shall  become  the  property  of  the  united  church,  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago. 

(4.)  That  the  churches  so  united  shall  proceed  to  finish  the 
edifice  now  in  process  of  erection  on  the  corner  of  Indiana  Avenue 
and  Twenty-first  Street,  in  accordance  with  the  plans  and  specifi- 
cations heretofore  adopted  by  Calvary  Church,  subject  to  any  modi- 
fications or  alterations  mutually  agreed  upon.  The  expenses  of 
such  completion  to  be  paid  out  of  any  available  means  now  belong- 
ing to  the  First  Church,  after  having  paid  the  above  sum  of  Twenty- 
five  Hundred  Dollars  ($2,500.00)  to  Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D.,  and  the 
sum  of  Sevent3'-five  Hundred  Dollars  ($7,500.00),  heretofore  borrowed 
by  Calvary  Church,  for  use  in  the  construction  of  said  church. 

The  Trustees  of  Calvary  Church  shall  convey  by  proper  deed 
of  conveyance  their  real  and  personal  property  to  the  trustees  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  upon  the  acceptance  of  this  basis  of 
union  by  the  two  churches.  It  is  understood  in  this  basis  of  union 
that  the  civil  existence  of  the  First  Church  rem.ains  uninterrupted. 

(5.)  The  churches  shall  be  united  by  an  act  of  Presbytery,  and 
all  arrangements  as  to  trustees  and  Session  shall  be  left  to  future 
consideration  and  conference. 

This  plan  of  union  was  adopted  by  each  of  the 
churches. 

At  a  meeting-  of  the  Session  of  Calvary  Church,  held 
on  the  evening-  of  November  2,  Rev.  Daniel  Lord,  D.D., 
asked  the  Session  to  join  v^^ith  him  in  an  application  to 
the  Presbytery  to  dissolve  the  pastoral  relation  existing- 
betv^^een  the  pastor  and  people  of  Calvary  Church.  This 
request  was  g-ranted.  It  was  also  voted  that  application 
be  made  to  the  Presbytery,  at  its  first  meeting-,  to  take  the 
necessary  action  for  uniting-  the  membership  of  this  church 
with  that  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  Mr.  James 
Otis  was  appointed  delegate  to  this  meeting-  of  the  Pres- 
bytery. 

The  Session  of  the  First  Church  also  took  action: 

November  5,  1871. 

Session  of  First  Presbyterian  Church  met  and  appointed  Mr. 
Henry  E.  Seelye  delegate  (Mr.  O.  D.  Ranney  alternate)  to  the  Pres- 
bytery to  represent  the  Session  of  this  church  in  the  matter  of  the 
consolidation  of  the  First  with   the   Calvary  Presbyterian   Church. 

November  13,  1871. 

Session  met  in  the  basement  of  Christ  Reformed  Episcopal 
Church.     Present,  Messrs.  Ranney,  Bissell,  Hamill  and  Penfield,  of 


CAL  VAKV  PRESB  YTERIAN  CHURCH.  45 

the  First  Church,  and  Messrs.  Wood,  Norton  and  Otis,  of  the  former 
Calvary  Church.  The  pastor  being;  absent,  Mr,  Bissell  acted  as 
moderator. 

Mr.  James  Otis,  as  deleg-ate  to  the  Presbytery  from  the  late 
Calvary  Church,  and  Mr.  Ranney,  of  the  First  Church,  reported 
that  application  w^as  duly  made  to  tlie  Presbytery  at  its  meeting-  on 
Wednesday,  November  8,  to  unite  the  First  and  Calvary  Presbyterian 
Churches;  that  the  Presbytery  voted  "to  unite  the  chvirches,  and 
appointed  Rev.  Robert  W.  Patterson,  D.D.,  Hon.  Samuel  M.  Moore 
and  Mr.  James  Otis  a  committee  to  prepare  the  necessary  papers 
for  record  in  the  minutes  of  the  Presbyter3^" 

CALVARY    PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH    CHOIR. 

In  parting-  with  Calvary  Church  it  may  not  be  un- 
interesting- to  cast  a  g-lance  at  the  musical  part  of  the  serv- 
ice before  its  consolidation  with  the  First  Church. 

In  the  record  of  one  of  the  first  meetings  of  the  So- 
ciety I  find  the  first  allusion  to  any  music  : 
Mr.  James  Otis,  having-  been  appointed   a  committee  on 

hymn  books,  reported  in  favor  of  the  collection  known 

as  the  "  Church  Psalmist." 

While  the  services  were  held  in  the  Orphan  Asylum 
the  music  was  of  the  plainest  character.  Some  one  played 
the  melodeon,  a  few  sing-ers  gathered  about  the  player  and 
sang  a  number  of  simple  hymns  ;  that  was  all. 

Our  first  choir,  a  volunteer  chorus,  was  organized  dur- 
ing- the  summer  of  1860  by  Prof.  Ebell,  who  was  some- 
thing of  a  character  in  his  way.  He  kept  a  photog-raph 
gallery  on  Ringg-old  Place  during- the  week,  and  on  Sunday 
played  the  melodeon  and  sang-  tenor.  He  was  born  in  the 
East  Indies,  of  American  parentage  ;  a  tall,  slender  man, 
with  swarthy  complexion  and  jet  black  hair.  As  I  think  of 
him  now,  I  am  reminded  of  the  East  Indians  who  haunted 
the  Midway  Plaisance  at  the  World's  Fair.  Afterward  he 
attended  the  old  University  of  Chicag-o.  Here  he  org-an- 
ized  a  singing  class,  of  which  I  was  a  member,  and,  I  think, 
later  he  studied  for  the  ministry. 

Prof.  Ebell  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  James  Murray  (B.), 
an  old  time  singing  schoolteacher  of  the  most  pronounced 
type,  who  hailed  from  Hornellsville,  N.  Y.  He  had  charge 
of  the  music  for  about  a  year,  and  we  then  fell  in  line  with 


46  ^  HISTORY  OF 

the  down  town  churches  and  talked  of  a  quartette.  We  were 
inspired  to  this  course  by  the  presence  at  a  Sunday  evening 
service,  of  two  members  of  a  city  choir,  who  came  out  to 
help  us.  Their  sing-ing  was  so  acceptable  that  one  of  them, 
Mr.  J.  B.  Sutton  (B.),  was  prevailed  upon  to  org-anize  a 
quartette  for  our  church.  This  was  soon  after  Rev.  James 
H.  Trowbridg-e  began  his  ministry,  in  1862.  Mr.  Sutton 
w^as  a  good  singer  and  leader,  but  the  other  members  of 
the  choir  were  not  at  all  satisfactory,  so  this  arrangement 
did  not  last  long. 

Our  next  leader,  Dr.  Warren  N.  Dunham  (T.),  who  led 
the  choir  at  the  dedication  of  the  "Brick  Church"  (First 
Presbyterian),  in  September,  1849,  organized  a  quartette 
May  1,  1863.  Its  members  were  Miss  Sarah  Sanger  (S.), 
Mrs.  Strong  (A.),  and  Mr.  Mohte  (B. ).  Miss  Anna  Cornwell 
Strickland,  a  niece  of  Prof.  Alonzo  J.  Sawyer,  played  the 
melodeon. 

Dr.  Dunham  resigned  May  1,  1864,  and  was  succeeded 
by  Mr.  E.  M.  Booth  (B.),  who  led  the  choir  until  May  1, 
1866,  assisted  at  various  times  during  these  two  years  by 
Mrs.  Sampson  (S.),  Miss  Scott  (S.),  Miss  Sarah  Sanger 
(S.),  Miss  Richards  (A.),  the  Misses  Turner  (S.  and  A.), 
and  Miss  Strickland  (O.).  The  tenor  part  was  taken  by 
different  singers. 

The  members  of  Calvary  Church  choir  during  the 
vears  1866,  1867  and  1868  are  all  mentioned  in  the  treas- 
urer's ledger  as  follows: 

May  1, 1866— Miss  Mae  French  (S. ),  Miss  Lizzie  Allen  (A. ) , 
Dr.  Lucian  A.  Clarke  (T.)  and  Mr.  Frank  A.  Bowen 
(B.).  The  position  of  organist  was  filled  by  various 
people  during  the  year. 

During-  the  year  1866  a  two-manual  cabinet  organ 
(Mason  &  Hamlin)  was  purchased-  at  a  cost  of  $475. 
This  cabinet  organ  is  now  in  the  prayer  meeting  room  of 
the  First  Church. 

May  1,  1867— Miss  Mae  French  (S.),  Miss  Lewis  (A.), 
Dr.  Lucian  A.  Clarke  (T.),  Mr.  Frank  A.  Bowen  (B.) 
and  Miss  Emma  Lander  (O.). 


MR.  GEORGK  FRANCIS  BACON. 


CAL VAR Y  PPHSBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  47 

May  1,  1868— Miss  Mae  French  (S.),  Miss  Hubbard  (A.), 
Dr.  Lucian  A.  Clarke  (T.),  succeeded  by  Mr,  A.  B. 
Stiles,'  Mr.  Frank  A.  Bowen^  (B.),  Miss  Lander  (O.), 
succeeded  by  Miss  Weeks. 

May,  1,  1869— Miss  Mae  French  (8.),  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Slay  ton  (T.  and  A.),  Mr.  A.  L.  Goldsmith'^  (B.),  Mr.  J. 
H.  Hansen  (O.),  succeeded  by  Mr.  Georg-e  F.  Bacon. 

May  1,  1870— Miss  Mae  French  (S.),  Miss  Fowler  (A.)  for 
portion  of  the  year,  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.),  Mr.  A.  L. 
Goldsmith  (B.),  succeeded  bv  Mr.  E.  S.  Evarts,   Mr 
Georg-e  F.  Bacon  (O.). 

MayI,  1871— Miss  Mae  French  (S.),  Miss  Hawkes  (A.), 
Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.),  Mri  E.  S.  Evarts  (B. )  and 
Mr.  Georg-e  F.  Bacon  (O.)  This  was  the  personnel  of 
the  choir  at  the  morning-  service  on  the  day  of  the 
great  fire,  October  8,  1871. 

'  Deceased.     He  was  a  brother  of  General  I.  N.  Stiles. 

^  Mr.  Bowen  remained  in  the  choir  until  1869,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  A.  L. 
Goldsmith.     Mr.  Bowen  now  resides  in  London,  England. 

^  Mr.  Goldsmith  resigned  May  1,  1870,  going-  to  the  choir  of  Olivet  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  returned  to  his  old  position  in  the  First  Church  May  1, 1872,  remaining  un- 
til 1874.  Since  1874  he  has  been  with  the  choir  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church,  a"  con- 
tinuous service  of  nearly  twenty-six  years. 


48  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

THE   UNITED   CHURCHES 

HEREAFTER   KNOWN   AS 

THE  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH. 

All  the  formalities  reg^arding"  the  union  of  the  two 
churches  having-  been  duly  arrang'ed,  the  people  of  Cal- 
vary Church  worshiped  with  the  people  of  the  First 
Church  for  the  first  time  on  Sundayafternoon/Nov^ember 
5,  1871,  in  Christ  Reformed  Episcopal  Church.  The  united 
churches,  or  First  Church, as  they  will  hereafter  be  called, 
continued  to  hold  services,  with  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D., 
as  pastor,  in  Christ  Church  until  February,  1872,  when  a 
chang-e  was  made  to  the  Immauuel  Baptist  Church  for  the 
rest  of  the  winter. 

The  lecture  room  of  the  present  edifice  was  completed 
about  the  end  of  April,  1872,  and  here  the  newly  consoli- 
dated church  at  last  found  a  permanent  home. 

In  following-  the  history  of  the  First  Church  from  this 
time  I  have  mainly  relied  on  records  kept  by  myself,  and 
on  the  Choir  Journal,  which  I  instituted  in  1875,  and  in 
which,  besides  an  account  of  the  musical  doings  of  the 
choir,  most  of  the  events  of  interest  to  the  members  of  the 
church  were  noted  down. 

In  arrang-ing-  the  details  of  the  union  it  was  ag-reed  that 
the  choir  of  Calvary  Church  should  be  retained:  Miss  Mae 
French  (S.,  afterward  Mrs.  W.  H.  Aldrich),  Miss  Ilawkes 
(A.),  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.),  Mr.  E.  S.  Evarts  {^:).  Miss 
Hawkes  resig-ned  soon  after  the  union  of  the  churches  had 
been  effected,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mrs.  Oliver  K.  John- 
son, who  continued  with  the  choir  until  May  1,  1872.  The 
choir  and  congreg-ation  suffered  a  g-reat  loss  in  the  death 
of  Mr.  Georg-e  F.  Bacon,  the  organist,  who  was  killed  in  an 
accident  on  the  Pennsylvania  R.  R.,  at  Mifflin,  Pa.,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1872.  Mr.  Bacon  was  an  excellent  musician  and  a 
church  org-anist  of  experience.     He  took  g-reat  pride  in  the 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  49 

work  of  the  choir,  and  was  looking-  forward  to  the  comple- 
tion of  the  new  organ,  the  contract  for  which,  with  Messrs. 
Hook  &  Hasting-s,  of  Boston,  had  been  sig-ned  during-  that 
summer  (1872).  Mr.  Bacon ^  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Henry- 
Fuller,^  who  continued  with  the  choir  for  the  g-reater  part 
of  the  time  until  his  death  in  September  of  the  following- 
year. 

There  were  a  few  chang-es  in  the  choir  May  1,  1872. 
Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson  (A.)  was  succeeded  by  Miss 
Antoinette  French,  and  Mr.  E.  S.  Evarts  by  Mr.  A.  L. 
Goldsmith  (B.). 

By  the  terms  of  the  contract,  the  org-an  was  required 
to  be  completed  by  the  end  of  November,  1872.  The 
builders  were  ready  at  the  time  specified,  but  the  church 
was  not  ready.  Finall}^  the  org-an  was  broug-ht  to  Chicag-o 
and  kept  in  storag-e  (some  of  the  parts  piled  up  in  the  base- 
ment of  the  church)  for  at  least  two  months  before  the 
main  audience  room  w^as  completed.  The  cost  of  the 
instrument  was  about  $9,000. 

SPECIFICATION    OF    THE   ORGAN, 
I  Manuale. 

1.  16-foot  Open  Diapason.  4.     8-foot  Viola  d' Amour. 

2.  8-foot  Open  Diapason.  5.     8-foot  Doppel  Flote. 

3.  8-foot  Viola  de  Gamba.         6.     4-foot    Flute    Harmon- 
ique. 

'Mr.  Georg-e  Francis  Bacou  was  born  December  13,  1839,  in  Geneseo,  N.  Y.  When 
quite  a  j'oung^  man  he  removed  to  Galesburg',  111.,  where  he  was  an  orpranist  for  a  few 
years.  He  then  came  to  Chicag-o  and  was  with  the  firm  of  Ro  t  &  Cady  for  two  years. 
Afterward  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Peoria,  111.,  residing'  there  seven  years  as  organist 
of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  1S6S  and  was  organist  of  Cal- 
vary Presbyterian  Church,  and  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  until  his  death, 
December  5,  1872.  Mr.  Bacon  was  married  first  to  Miss  Emma  Ra3'mond,  daughter  of 
Rev.  Louis  Raymond,  of  Chicago,  in  November,  1865.  His  first  wife  died  about  a  year 
afterward.  He  was  married  the  second  time  to  Miss  Mar3r  Myrick,  October  15,  1868. 
His  children  are  Lillian  F.  M.  Bacon  and  Jennie  G.,  wife  of  Mr.  Charles  A.  Ford.  Mr. 
Bacon's  brother,  Mr.  Henr3'  M.  Bacon,  has  been  for  many  years  an  officer  in  the  First 
Church.  Mr.  Bacon  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Kuowles, 
Birdsell  &  Bacon,  tea  and  c<jfi:ee  merchants. 

^I  met  Mr.  Fuller  for  the  first  time  in  the  winter  of  1864-65,  when  he  was  organist 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  then  standing  on  Jackson  Street,  between  Michigan  and 
Wabash  Avenues.  Afterward  he  went  to  the  New  England  Congregational  Church, 
where  he  was  associated  with  a  quartette  choir,  consisting  of  weU  known  musical 
people:  Mrs.  George  B.  Carpenter  (S.),  Miss  Carpenter  (A.),  Ivlr.  J.  R.  Nielsen  (T.) 
and  Mr.  H.  L.  Sloan  (B.).  Mr.  Fuller  during  his  residence  in  Chicag^o  was  connected 
with  the  firm  of  Shortall  &  Hoard,  abstract  makers.  He  died  at  Mercy  Hospital, 
Chicago,  September  24,  1873. 


so  ^  HISTORY  OF  THE 


7. 

4-foot  Flute  Octave. 

10. 

8. 

3-foot  Twelfth. 

11. 

9. 

2-foot  Fifteenth. 

12. 

II  Manualk, 

13. 

16-foot  Bourdon. 

20. 

14. 
15. 

8-foot  Open  Diapason. 
8-foot  Viola. 

21. 

22. 

16. 
17. 

8-foot  Stop'd  Diapason. 
8-foot  Ouintadena. 

23! 

18. 

4-foot  Flauto  Traverso. 

24. 

19. 

4-foot  Violina. 

Ill  Ma 

.NUALE 

25. 

8-foot  Geig"en  Principal. 

29. 

26. 

8-foot  Dulciana. 

30. 

27. 

8-foot  Melodia. 

31. 

28. 

4-foot  Flute  d'Amour. 

3  ranks  Mixture. 
3  ranks  Acuta. 
8-foot  Trumpet. 


2-foot  Flautino. 
3  ranks  Dulce  Cornet. 
8-foot  Cornopean. 
8-foot  Oboe  with  Bas- 
soon. 
8-foot  Vox  Humana. 


4-foot  Fug-ara. 
2-foot  Piccolo. 
8-foot  Clarinet. 


Pedale. 

32.  16-foot  Open  Diapason.        35.     8-foot  Violoncello. 

33.  16-foot  Bourdon.  36.  16-foot  Trombone. 

34.  12-foot  Violone. 

Mechanical  Registers. 

37.  I  Manuale  to  Pneumatic,  Coupler. 

38.  II  Manuale  to  Pneumatic  (Swell  to  Great). 

39.  Ill  Manuale  to  Pneumatic,  Coupler  (Choir  to  Swell). 

40.  II  to  III  Manuale,  Coupler  (Swell  to  Choir). 

41.  I  Manuale  to  Pedale,  Coupler  (Great  to  Pedale). 

42.  II  Manuale  to  Pedale,  Coupler  (Swell  to  Pedale). 

43.  Ill  Manuale  to  Pedale,  Coupler  (Choir  to  Pedale). 

44.  Tremolo. 

45.  Bellows  Signal. 

Pedale  Movements. 

1.  Forte  Combination  Pedale,  I  Manuale. 

2.  Mezzo  Forte  Combination  Pedale,  I  Manuale. 

3.  Piano  Combination  Pedale,  I  Manuale. 

4.  Forte  Combination  Pedale,  II  Manuale. 

5.  Mezzo  Forte  Combination  Pedale,  II  Manuale. 

6.  Piano  Combination  Pedale,  II  Manua'e. 

7.  Forte  Combination  Pedale,  Pedale. 

8.  Reversible    Pedal    to   operate    Pedale    Coupler   for  I 

Manuale. 

9.  Adjustable  Swell  Pedal. 


THK  FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH — 
INDIANA  AVENUE  AND  TWENTY-FIRST  STREET. 


FIRS  T  PRESB  Y  TERIA  N  CHUR  CH.  51 

Pneumatic  action  applied  to  the  I  Manuale  and  all  its 
couplers. 

A  hydraulic  motor  was  attached  to  the  organ  in  1896. 

The  new  edifice  of  the  First  Church  was  formally 
opened  February  6,  1873,  with  an  org-an  concert,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  G.  C.  Knopfel,  the  western  agent  of 
the  organ  builders.  Mr.  Knopfel  was  assisted  by  the  fol- 
lowing artists : 

Messrs.  Louis  Falk  and  I.  V.  Flagler,  organists;  Miss 
Eva  Manierre  and  Mr.  N.  Ledochowski,  pianists;  Mrs.  O. 
L.  Fox,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Farwell  and  Mrs.  W.  H.  Aldrich,  so- 
pranos; Mrs.  O.  K.  Johnson,  Mrs.  A.  R.  Sabin,  Miss  Mary 
Holden  and  Miss  N.  French,  altos;  Messrs.  Gates,  How- 
ard, Sabin  and  Otis,  tenors;  Messrs.  Hubbard,  Sprague 
and  Goldsmith,  basses  ;  Mr.  Lyon,  harp ;  Mr.  Sir,  violin; 
Mr.  Bareither,  flute,  and  Mr.  Bachmann,  violoncello. 

The  programme  was  as  follows : 

Part  I. 

1 — Opening  of  the  Org-an,         -         -         Mr.  G.  C.  Knopfel. 

Agent  for  the  Builders. 

a.  Selections. 

b.  Offertoire,  Op.  22,  .        -        .        .  Batiste. 
2 — Benedic  Anima,      ------  Buck. 

Choir  of  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
3 — Angels,  Ever  Bright  and  Fair,     -         -         -  Handel. 

Mrs.  O.  L.  Fox. 
4 — A  Tear  Shed  at  the  Grave  of  Rossini,         -  Ciardi. 

Organ,  Piano,  Harp,  Violoncello,  Violin  and  Flute. 
Messrs.  Knopfel, Falk,  Lyon,  Bachmann,  SirandBareither. 

5— Volkslied, Krebs. 

Choir  of  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 

6 — Variations  on  a  Scotch  Air,  -         -         -  Buck. 

Mr.  Louis  Falk. 

7 — The  Message, Blumenthal. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Aldrich. 

Part  II. 

1 — Gloria  in  Excelsis,         -         .         .         .         .  Knopfel. 

Performed  by  the  Choirs  of  the  First,  Second  and 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Churches. 

2 — Grand  Duo  for  Tw^o  Pianos  and  Organ  Obligate, 

Lysberg. 
Miss  Eva  Manierre  and  Messrs.  Ledochowski  and  Knopfel. 

3 — Venite,  -         - Buck. 

Choir  of  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 
4 — a.     Transcription — Robin  Adair,         -  -  Flagler. 

b.     Prelude  in  B  Minor,  .         .  .  Bach. 

Mr.  I.  V.  Flagler. 


52  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

5 — Trio — Lift  Thine  Eyes,         ...         Mendelssohn. 

Mesdames  Farwell,  Fox  and  Johnson.^ 

6 — Miserere,  from  Trovatore,     -         -         -         -  Verdi 

For  Piano,  Organ,  Violoncello  and  Violin. 

Messrs.  Knopfel,  Flagler,  Bachman  and  Sir. 

7 — Festival  March, Zundel. 

Mr.  G.  C.  Knopfel. 

Membership  of  choirs  taking-  part  in  this  concert : 
First  Presbyterian — Mrs.  W.  H.  Aldrich  (S.),  Miss  An- 
toinette French^  (A.),  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.)  and  Mr.  A. 
L.  Goldsmith  (B.).  Second  Presbyterian — Mrs.  John  A. 
Farwell  (S.),  Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson  (A.),  Mr.  Robert  T. 
Howard  (T.)  and  Mr.  John  M.  Hubbard  (B.).  Fourth 
Presbyterian— Mrs.  O.  L.  Fox  (S.),  Mrs.  A.  R.  Sabin  (A.), 
Mr.  A.  R.  Sabin  (T.)  and  Mr.  William  Sprague  (B.). 

Mr.  Benjamin  Owen^  played  the  organ  for  a  short  time 
after  its  completion,  in  the  absence  of  Mr.  Fuller.  The 
org-anists  after  Mr.  Fuller's  death  in  September,  1873, 
were  Mr.  Emil  Liebling-,  until  May,  1874,  and  Mr.  William 
H.  Cutler,  now  of   Evanston,  until  October  of  that  year. 

In  May,  1873,  I  tendered  my  resignation  as  a  member 
of  the  choir,  expecting-  to  be  absent  from  the  city  for  a 
year  or  more,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  James  Gill  (T.), 
who  had  charge  of  the  choir  until  May  1, 1874.  Mrs.  Aldrich 
(S.)   and    Miss  French  (A.)  resigned  in  February,  1873. 

A  notable  event  in  the  history  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  occurred  in  May,  1874 — the  trial  of  Rev.  David 
Swing,"*  pastor  of  the  Fourth  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Chicago,  on  charges  of  heresy,  preferred  by  Rev.  Francis 

^Mrs.  Johnson  sang  that  evening'  in  the  place  of  Mi's.  I.  A.  Balfour,  the  regular 
alto  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  choir,  who  was   detained  by  illness. 

=Miss  Antoinette  French,  wife  of  Mr.  Frank  S.  Osborn,  died  October  30,  3897. 

^Mr.  Benjamin  Bloomfield  Owen  was  born  in  Stockholm,  October  13,  1830.  He 
came  to  New  York  City  August  24,  1859,  working  his  passage  across  the  ocean  as  a  com- 
mon sailor.  Here  he  met  Jenny  Lmd,  being  introduced  by  Mr.  Max  Hjortsberg,  Owen's 
adopted  brother,  who  afterward  came  to  Chicago.  At  her  suggestion,  and  with  her  as- 
sistance, Owen  studied  music  under  the  best  instructors  then  in  New  York  City.  In  1863 
he  married  Miss  Kate  Osborn,  a  daughter  of  the  late  Judge  Osborn,  of  La  Porte,  Ind., 
and  a  grand-niece  of  Rev.  Brainerd  Kent,  our  "Father"  Kent,  Mr.  Owen  was  organist 
of  Christ  Church,  Indianapolis,  Sixth  Street  Synagogue  of  S\  Louis,  Plymouth  Congre- 
gational and  Trinity  Episcopal  Churches  of  Chicago.  Among  his  best  works  for  choirs 
are  the  anthems,  "  Hear  Us,  O  Father"  ("Church  and  Home"  collection),  and  the  "Ave 
Maria,"  for  soprano  solo  and  chords.     Mr.  Owen  died  at  Champion,  Mich.,  Jul}'  17,  1889. 

■•Rev.  David  Swing  was  born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  August  23,  1830,  and  died  at 
Chicago,  October  3,  1894. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  53 

L.  Patton,  D.D.,  professor  in  the  Presbyterian  Theolog"ical 
Seminary  of  the  Northwest,  now  known  as  the  McCormick 
Theological  Seminary.  Nothing-  of  so  great  religious  im- 
portance had  happened  in  this  country  since  the  trial  of 
Albert  Barnes  on  similar  charges  in  May,  1835,  before  the 
General  Assembly,  at  Pittsburg. 

The  case  was  heard  by  the  Chicago  Presbytery,  of 
which  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  was  moderator,  in  the 
lecture  room  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church.  There 
were  two  charges  named  by  Professor  Patton: 

1.  Rev.  David  Swing,  being  a  minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  in  the  United  States  of  America,  and  a 
member  of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  has  not  been  zealous 
and  faithful  in  maintaining  the  truths  of  the  Gospel,  and 
has  not  been  faithful  and  diligent  in  the  exercise  of  the 
public  duties  of  his  office  as  such  minister. 

2.  Rev.  David  Swing,  being  a  minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  in  the  United  States  of  America,  and  a 
member  of  the  Presbytery  of  Chicago,  does  not  sincerely 
receive  and  adopt  the  Confession  of  Faith,  as  containing 
the  system  of  doctrine  taught  in  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

The  outcome  of  this  trial,  in  which  Professor  Swing 
had  the  sympathies  of  the  First  Church  and  the  public 
generally,  resulted  in  a  great  victory  for  him,  when  the 
Presbytery  on  May  20  reached  a  decision,  Onl}'-  fifteen  of 
the  sixty-one  members  voted  to  sustain  the  first  charge, 
and  thirteen  to  sustain  the  second. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  of  October  3,  1894,  in  comment- 
ing on  this  trial,  says: 

Professor  Swing's  arg-ument  in  his  own  defense, 
explaining  his  objectionable  words  and  indicating  his  gen- 
eral conformity  to  the  Presb3^terian  standard,  while  exer- 
cising his  inalienable  right  of  private  judgment  in  inter- 
preting both  the  church  standards  and  the  Scriptures, 
were  masterly  efforts,  and  displayed  a  rare  degree  of  cool- 
ness, good  nature,  self-poise,  logic  and  satire  rarely 
excelled  in  similar  cases. 

Among  the  sopranos  following  Mrs.  Aldrich  until  May 
1,  1874,  were  Miss  Jessica  Haskell  and  Mrs.  Schmahl. 
Miss  French  (A.)  was  succeeded  by  Miss  Ella  White,  now 
Mrs.  Jacob  R.   Custer.     The  appropriation  for  music  at 


54  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

this  time  was  limited,  and  it  was  thoug-ht  best  not  to  have 
any  choir  from  July  until  November,  1874,  during-  which 
time  Mr.  P.  P.  Bliss,  ^  the  evang-elist,  acted  as  precentor. 

A  new  choir  was  org-anized  in  December,  1874,  con- 
sisting" of : 

Miss  Jessica  Haskell  (S.),  who  was  with  the  choir  in 

1873.  She  was  soloist  at  the  first  concert  of  the  Apollo 
Musical  Club,  January  21,  1873.  In  August,  1875,  she 
went  abroad  to  study,  returning  to  the  choir  in  February, 
1876,  the  position  in  the  meantime  being  filled  by  Mrs. 
Cheney.  Miss  Haskell  retired  from  the  choir  on  her  mar- 
riage in  June,  1876,  to  Mr.  Edward  Fuller,  and  has  since 
resided  in  Madison,  Wis. 

Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson  (A.),  formerly  Miss  Louisa 
Whitlock,  made  her  first  public  appearance  in  the  perform- 
ance of  Rossini's  "  Stabat  Mater,"  by  the  Musical  Union, 
in  1865;  soloist  at  the  second  concert  of  the  Apollo  Musical 
Club,  February  25,  1873;  in  Schumann's  "Paradise  and 
Peri,"  by  the  Apollo  Musical  Club,  1874;  Beethoven's  mass 
in  C,  by  the  Beethoven  Society,  in  1874;  in  Bruch's 
"Odysseus,"  by  the  Beethoven  Society,  in  1876;  in 
"Elijah,"  by  the  Beethoven  Society,  in  1876;  Bruch's 
"Lay  of  the  Bell,"  by  the  Beethoven  Society,  in  1879;  in 
"The  Messiah,"  by  the  Apollo  Musical  Club,  in  1880 
and  1881.  Mrs.  Johnson  retired  from  the  choir  January 
1,  1886,  and  now  resides  in  Chicago. 

Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis    (T.). 

Mr.  Charles  T.  Root  (B.)  resigned  October  31,  1875, 
and  was  succeeded  on  January  1,  1876,  by  Mr.  John  May- 
nard  Hubbard, who  was  engaged  for  the  choir  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  the  second  Sunday  after  his  arrival 
in  Chicago  in  September,  1863.  He  continued  with  the 
First  Church  until  January  1,  1886,  and  then  returned  to 
the  Second  Church,  where  he  is  now  (1900)  engaged,  mak- 
ing thirty-seven  years  of  almost  continuous  service  in  the 
choirs  of  these  two  churches. 

Mr.  Charles  Arthur  Havens  (O.)  was  born  in  Essex, 
Essex  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1842.  After  a  course  of  study  in 
Boston,  he  was  called  in  1865  to  the  position  in  the  Second 
Presbj^terian  Church,  Chicago,  remaining  there  for  sev- 
eral years.  He  was  next  engaged  at  the  First  Baptist 
Church,  and  came  to  the  First  Presbyterian  in  October, 

1874.  He    resigned    from    the    First    Presbyterian    in 

'Mr.  Philip  Paul  Bliss  lost  his  life  in  an  accident  on  the  Lake  Shore  R.  R.  at 
Ashtabula,  Ohio,  December  29,  1876.  He  was  born  in  Cleartield  county.  Pa.,  July  9, 
1838. 


MK.  CHARLES  ARTHUR  HAVENS. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  55 

October,  1875,  to  fill  a  three  months'  eng-ag-ement  at  St. 
James  Episcopal  Church,  returning-  to  the  First  Church 
January  1,  1876.  From  1882  until  1890  he  was  ag-ain  with 
the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  but  then  returned  to  the 
First  Baptist  Church,  where  he  is  now  (1900)  eng-ag-ed. 

I  will  now  note  other  chang-es  which  took  place  in  the 
membership  of  the  choir  prior  to  January  1,  1886,  when 
my  active  connection  with  the  choir  ceased: 

Sopranos:  Miss  Crocker,  from  September,  1876,  to  Ja-n 
uary  1,  1877;  Miss  Fanny  Whitney  (afterward  Mrs.  E.  F. 
Gorton)  from  January  1,  1877,  to  January  1,  1881;  Miss 
Esther  Butler  from  January  1,  1881,  to  May  20,  1883;  Mrs. 
John  C.  Buckbee  from  May  20,  1883,  to  January  1,  1886. 

During-  the  three  months'  absence  of  Mr.  Havens, 
from  October,  1875,  to  January,  1876,  with  the  St.  James 
Episcopal  Church,  his  place  was  filled  by  Mr.  Dyer,  Mr. 
Samuel  C.  Moore  and  Mr.  Frederick  W.  Root. 

Mr.  Clarence  Eddy  succeeded  Mr.  Havens,  beg-inning- 
his  duties  January  12,  1879,  remaining-  until  May  1,  1895,  a 
period  of  more  than  sixteen  years,  long-er  than  the  pastor- 
ate of  any  minister  of  the  church. 

Other  extracts  from  the  choir  journals  will  now  be 
given  in  chronolog-ical  order  (1876-1900),  which,  as  will  be 
seen,  touch  on  many  interesting-  items  pertaining-  to  the 
church  at  larg-e. 

1876. 

June  19 — Funeral  services  of  Mr.  Alexander  Murison,  con- 
ducted by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  assisted  by  the 
church  choir. 

Mr.  Murison  was  born  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  October 
20,  1827;  died  in  Rome,  Italy,  March  14,  1876. 

1877. 

January  1 — A  Sunday  afternoon  service  was  commenced 
to-day  at  four  o'clock. 

May  13 — Dr.  Mitchell  has  received  six  months'  leave  of 
absence  and  has  g-one  to  Europe.  Dr.  Taylor  in  the 
pulpit  to-day. 

There  was  no  regular  pulpit  supply  during-  Dr.  Mitch- 
ell's absence.  The  journal  says  that  Dr.  Eels,  of  Cleve- 
land, preached  May  27;  Dr.  Simpson,  of  Louisville,  Ky., 
June  10;  Rev.  W.  M.  Blackburn,  D.D.,  of  the  Presbyterian 
Theolog-ical  Seminary  of  the  Northwest,  July  1;  and  Rev. 


56  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Joseph  Cook  July  15.     The  afternoon  service  was  discon- 
tinued after  July  1. 

November  4 — Dr.  Mitchell  has  returned  from  Europe  and 
occupied  the  pulpit  to-day. 

November  18 — A  great  effort  was  made  to  pay  off  the 
church  debt;  $31,000  subscribed  this  morning-. 

December  16 — Balance  of  church  debt,  $15,000,  subscribed. 

1878. 
May  26— 

Anthem— Jubilate  in  E  Flat,         -  -  S.  P.  "Warren. 

Collection  for  Railroad  Chapel,  $4,500  subscribed. 

June  30 — 

Anthem — Thou  Earth,  Waft  Sweet  Incense,         -         Spohr. 

From  the  Cantata,   God,  Thou  art  Great. 

Miss  Fannj'  Whitnej'  and  Quartette. 

Ofifertory — Seek  Ye  the  Lord,         ...  Roberts. 

Mrs.  Jenny  Twitcliell  Kempton  (A.),  who  assisted  the 
choir  on  this  and  other  occasions,  was  a  notable  singer. 
Her  musical  studies  were  pursued  in  Boston.  After- 
ward she  removed  to  New  York  City,  and  was  there 
married  to  Mr.  James  M.  Kempton.  Her  first  important 
eng-agement  was  with  "  Father  Kemp's  Old  Folks'  Concert 
Company,"  traveling-  with  them  for  several  years  before 
the  war.  In  1863-64  she  sang  with  the  Richings-Ber- 
nard  Opera  Company  in  San  Francisco,  and  on  her  return 
to  Boston  appeared  in  oratorio,  with  the  Handel  and  Haydn 
Society  for  several  concerts,  notably  their  semi-centennial 
celebration,  in  May,  1865.  Mrs.  Kempton  then  went 
abroad,  studying-  in  Paris  and  Italy,  and  singing  one  season 
at  La  Scala,  in  Milan;  afterward  she  sang  in  Paris  and 
England.  On  her  return  to  America  Mrs.  Kempton  was 
engaged  with  Parepa-Rosa  in  concert  and  opera,  and  in 
1878  came  to  Chicago,  where  she  resided  several  years,  as 
concert  singer  and  teacher.  Her  present  home  is  in  San 
Francisco. 

October  27 — Sunday  afternoon  :  funeral  services  of  Mr. 
Augustus  G.  Downs,  conducted  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitch- 
ell, D.D.,  and  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D.,  with  the  assist- 
ance of  the  members  of  the  choir. 


MR.    CLARENCE  EDDY. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  57 

NovEMBKR  3 — Historical  sermon  by  Dr.  Mitchell,  from 
Deut.  viii:  2  :  "  And  thou  shalt  remember  all  the  way 
which  the  Lord  thy  God  led  thee  these  forty  3^ears." 

Dr.  Mitchell  said  that  Chicag^o  in  1833  consisted  of 
about  300  settlers,  most  of  them  drawn  or  driven  here  for 
protection  on  account  of  the  Blackhawk  war.^  This  ser- 
mon was  afterward  published  under  the  title  of:  "The 
Church  on  the  Frontier." 

1879. 
January  12 — Mr.  Eddy's  first  service  in  the  church: 

Prelude — Communion  in  E,       -         -         -  Saint-Saens. 

Postlude — Marche  Religiense.  -         -         -       Guilmant. 

January  19 — 

Offertory — Palm  Branches,       -         -         -         -  Faure. 

Mr.  W.  T.  Carleton. 

March  23  — Rev.  Francis  L.  Patton,  D.D.,  occupied  the 
pulpit  this  morning;  a  great  sermon. 

November  28 — Funeral  services  of  Mr.  Solomon  A.  Smith 
held  at  the  church,  conducted  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell, 
D.D.,  with  the  assistance  of  the  choir.  Mr.  Eddy 
played  the  Funeral  March  of  Chopin  at  the  conclusion 
of   the    services.      In    the   course    of    an    impressive 

^  sermon  on  the  text,  "How  are  the  mighty  fallen," 
Dr.  Mitchell  said  of  Mr.  Smith:  "He  was  known 
amongst  all  this  community,  and  through  the  north- 
west as  one  of  the  most  upright,  one  of  the  most 
able,  one  of  the  most  conservative,  one  of  the  most 
reliable  men  of  business  with  which  this  city  was  ever 
blessed;  a  man  who  held  as  a  sacred  and  inviolate  trust 
everything  that  was  committed  into  his  hands. "  The 
pall  bearers  were  Messrs.  George  Armour,  Marshall 
Field,  E.  Blackman,  A.  H.  Burley,  E.  T.  Watkins, 
John  Tyrell,  Jerome  Beecher  and  John  B.  Drake. 

1880. 
March  14 — Mr.  Harrison  M.  Wild,  organist: 

Prelude — Second  Movement  from  Sonata  in  G  Minor, 

Merkel. 
Postlude— St.  Ann's  Fugue,      -----      Bach. 

August  8— Dr.    Mitchell  announced   from  the  pulpit  his 

•I  heard  Hon.  John  Wentworth  say  at  one  of  the  "old  settler  meeting's,"  at  the 
Calumet  Club,  that  on  New  Year's  day.  1S37,  he  took  a  two-horse  sleigh  and  called  on  al 
the  married  people  living  in  Chicago. 


58  ^  HISTORY  OF  THE 

decision  to  accept  the  call  offered  him  from  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

August  15,  22  —  Pulpit  occupied  by  Rev.  Dr.  Muchmore, 
of  Philadelphia. 

August  29 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D. 

October  3 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Robert  W.  Patterson,  D.D. 

October  17 — Dr.  Mitchell  occupied  the  pulpit  to-day  for 
the  last  time,  preaching-  from  the  text:  "  Only  let  your 
conversation  be  as  it  becometh  the  Gospel  of  Christ, 
that  whether  I  come  and  see  3^ou  or  else  be  absent,  I 
may  hear  of  3^our  affairs,  that  ye  stand  fast  in  one 
spirit,  with  one  mind,  striving-  tog-ether  for  the  faith  of 
the  Gospel." 

October  24 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Georg-e  Crawford,  from 
Paul's  letter  to  the  Piiilippians  iii:  13,  14:  "Brethren, 
I  count  not  myself  to  have  apprehended,  but  this  one 
thing  I  do,  forgetting  those  things  which  are  behind, 
and  reaching-  forth  unto  those  things  which  are  before, 
I  press  toward  the  mark  for  the  prize  of  the  high  call- 
ing of  God  in  Christ  Jesus." 

November  14 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Mr.  Burnham,  of  Fall 
River,  Mass.;  text,  Galatians  vi:  2:  "Bear  ye  one 
another's  burdens,  and  so  fulfill  the  law  of  Christ." 

December  26 — Christmas  celebration: 

Organ — Christmas  Offertoire,  ...       Guilmant. 

Anthem— O  Zion,  that  Tellest,  ....      Buck. 

Anthem — Sing-,  O  Heavens, Tours. 

Org-an — Hallelujah  Chorus,       ...         -  Handel. 

The  church  choir  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  W.  H.  Aldrich  and 
Miss  Adele  McCord,  sopranos;  Mrs.  J.  T.  Kempton 
and  Mrs.  J.  R.  Custer,  altos;  Mr.  Charles  M.  Smith 
and  Mr.  John  Rattenbury,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee 
and  Mr.  J.  S.  Moore,  basses;  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy, 
organist. 

A  Christmas  sermon  was  delivered  by  Prof.  Franklin 
W.  Fisk,  D.D.,  who  supplied  the  pulpit  for  a  year  or  more 
after  Dr.  Mitchell's  departure. 

1881. 

January  26 — Pulpit  occupied  by  Rev.  Edward  H.  Curtis, 
son  of  Rev.  Harvey  Curtis,  D.D.,  pastor  of  this  church 
from  1850  to  1858.    Text,  St.  Mark  iv :  34 :  "But  without 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  59 

a  parable   spake   He    not  unto  them,  and  when   they 
were  alone  He  expounded  all  thing's  to  His  disciples." 

March  11 — 

Organ — First  and  Second  Movements,  Sonata,  Op.  119, 

Merkel. 
Anthem — Mag^nificat  in  B  Flat,  .  .  .  Stanford. 
Offertory — O  Come,  Everj^  One  that  Thirsteth, 

Mendelssohn. 
Organ — Last  Movement,  Sonata,  Op.  119,        -  Merkel. 

April  17 — Easter  Sunday,  festival  service: 

Organ — Overture  to  the  Messiah,      .         -  -  Handel. 

Anthem — This  Is  the  Day,          ...  -  -       Otis. 

Anthem — God  hath  Appointed  a  Day,       -  -  -    Tours. 

Anthem — King,  All  Glorious,             _         .  .  Barnby. 

Organ — Finale  Paschal  Sonata,       .         .  -  Lemmens. 

The  church  choir  was  assisted  bv  Miss  Jessica  Jenks,  Mrs. 
W.  H.  Aldrich  and  Mrs.  L.  M.  Prentiss,  sopranos; 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Balfour  and  Miss  Alice  Coffey,  altos;  Mr. 
John  Rattenbury  and  Mr.  C.  E.  Leach,  tenors;  Mr. 
Charles  S.  Lee,  Mr.  W.  L.  Mason  and  Mr.  J.  S.  Moore, 
basses.     Org-anist,  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy. 

Prof.  Franklin  W.  Fisk,  D.D.,  delivered  an  Easter  sermon; 
text,  St.  Matthew  xix:  22:  "But  when  the  young-  man 
heard  that  saying-  he  went  away  sorrowful,  for  he  had 
g-reat  possessions." 

Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton  made  an  address  in  behalf  of  Rail- 
road Chapel;  $4,800  subscribed  for  that  cause. 

May  22— 

Offertory — a.   Turn  Thou  unto  Me  (Eli),  -  i  r     *■ 

b.   The  Lord  is  Good  (Eli),  -  f  «-osta. 

Mrs.  O.  K.  Johnson  and  Quartette. 

July  10 — All  the  selections  from  the  works  of  Mr.  Fred- 
erick Grant  Gleason: 

Vorspiel — Otho  Visconti. 

Anthem — Gloria  in  Excelsis,  E  Flat. 

Offertory — Cast  Thy  Burden  on  the  Lord  (from  the  cantata 

God,  Our  Deliverer). 
Organ — Overture  Triomphale,  Op.  11. 

July  24 — Sermon  by  Prof.  Fisk;  text,  first  epistle  of  John 
v:  17:  "All  unrig-hteousness  is  sin,  and  there  is  a  sin 
not  unto  death." 

July  31 — Announcement  was  made  from  the  pulpit  that  a 
call  had  been  extended  to  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows  of 
East  Boston,  Mass.,  and  that  he  would  preach  in  this 


60  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

church  on  August  14.  Sermon  by  Rev.  Henry  Mont- 
g-omery,  of  Belfast,  Ireland;  text,  Romans  v:  1: 
"Therefore,  being-  justified  by  faith,  we  have  peace 
with  God,  through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ." 

August  7 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Z.  M.  Humphrey,  D.D. 

AuGUvST  14 — Rev.  John  H.  Barrows  in  the  pulpit,  preaching 
from  the  text,  St.  John,  iv:  24:  "God  is  a  Spirit,  and 
they  that  worship  Him  must  worship  Him  in  spirit  and 
in  truth." 

Mr.  A.  F.  McCarrell,  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  org-anist 
in  the  absence  of  Mr.  Eddy: 

Org^an — Andante  in  E  Minor,  No.  3.  -  -  Smart. 

Anthem — The  Strain  Upraise,  .         -  -  .      Buck. 

Anthem — Prepa.re  Ye  tiie  Way  of  the  Lord.  -  Garrett. 

Org-an — Triumphal  March  (Naaman),     -  -  -     Costa. 

At  the  evening  service  Rev.  Mr.  Barrows  preached  from 
the  text,  St.  John  sviii:  38:  "And  Pilate  saith  unto 

Him,  V/hat  is  truth  ?" 

The  choir  selections  were: 

Organ— Second  Sonata,  Op.  42,  No.  2,  -  Merkel. 

Anthem — O  Give  Tlianks  unto  the  Lord,  Wm.  Jackson. 

Anthem — God  Is  a  Spirit,           -         .         -  -  Bennett. 

Organ— Op.  100,  No.  4,       -         -         -         -  -  Merkel. 

November  6 — Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  began  his  labors 
to-da}^  as  the  sixth  pastor  of  the  church,  preaching 
from  the  text:  "  I  am  the  Word." 

November  17 — Thursday,  p.  m.,  funeral  services  of  Rev. 
Zephaniah  Moore  Humphrey,  D.D,,  the  fourth  pastor 
of  the  church,  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  C.  M.  Hender- 
son, conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  \vith  the 
assistance  of  members  of  the  choir, 

December  4 — An  evening-  service  was  commenced  to-day 
and  will  be  continued  through  the  winter  months. 
Printed  programmes  of  the  order  of  service  distrib- 
uted through  the  pews,  for  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  the  church. 

December  8 — Thursday  evening-.  Installation  services  oi 
Rev.  John  H.  Barrows.  Rev.  R,  W.  Patterson,  D.D., 
was  the  presiding  minister  and  propounded  the  con- 
stitutional questions.  Rev.  J.  M.  Worrall,  D.D.,  offered 
the  invocation  and  read  the  Scripture  lesson.  Rev. 
Herrick  Johnson.  D.D.,  preached  the  sermon.  Prof. 
Franklin  W.  Fisk,  D.D.,  offered  the  installing  prayer. 


FIRS  r  PRESR  YTERl.  I N  CHUR  CH.  61 

The  charg-e  to  the  pastor  was  g-iven  by  Rev.  A.  E. 
Kittredg-e,  D.D.,  and  the  charg-e  to  the  people  by  Rev. 
George  C.  Noj^es,  D.D.     The  musical  selections  vi^ere: 

Organ — Overture  to  Occasional  Oratorio.        -  Handel. 

Anthem — The  Twentj'-fourth  Psalm,        -         -         -       Otis. 
Anthem — I  Waited  for  the  Lord,        -         -         Mendelssohn. 

Duet  sung-  by  Mrs.  Farwell  and  Miss  Wallace. 
Anthem — King-,  All  Glorious,  ...  Barnby. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus  (Mount  of  Olives),      Beetiioven. 

The  church  choir  was  assisted  by  the  choir  of  the  Second 

Presbyterian  Church,  Mrs.  J.  A.  Farwell  (S.),  Mrs.  F. 

S.  Bag-g-  (A.),  Mr.  R.  T.  Howard  (T.)  and  Mr.  H.  L. 

Sloan  (B.). 
Choir  of  Third  Presbyterian  Church,  Miss  Kii.tie  Wallace 

(S.),  Miss  Pauline  Rommeis  (A.),  Mr.  O.  C.  Snider  (T.) 

and  Mr.  A.  L.  Goldsmith  (B.). 
Choir  of  Fourth  Presbyterian   Church,   Mrs.  W.  H.  Al- 

drich  (S.),  Mrs.  C.  F.  Summy  (A.),  Dr.  Charles  T. 

Barnes  (T.~)  and  Mr.  William  Sprag-ue  (B.). 
Org-anist,  Mr.  Clarence  "^udy. 

The  Chicag-o  Tribi::-:  on  the  following- day,  speaking-  of 
this  service,  said:  "  The  music  was  the  best  ever  sung-  on 
a  similar  occasion  in  Chicag-o." 

December  25 — Christmas  service : 

Organ — Overture  to  the  Messiah,      -  -  -  Handel. 

Anthem — Magnificat  in  D,         -         -  -  -  Tours. 

Anthem — O  Zion,  that  Tellest,          .  .  .  .      Buck. 

Anthem — Our  Psalm  of  Joy  (Noel),  -  -  Gounod. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,       -         -  -  -  Handel. 

The  church  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks 
and  Mrs.  L.  M.  Prentiss,  sopranos;  Miss  Lulu  St.  C. 
Tuthill  and  Miss  Annie  Upton,  altos;  Mr.  John  Ratten- 
bury  and  Mr.  Charles  M.  Smith,  i  tenors;  Mr.  W.  L. 
Mason  and  Mr.  J.  S.  Moore,  basses.  Org-anist,  Mr. 
Clarence  Eddy. 

1882. 

January  1 — Sunday  afternoon.  Choir  assist  Professor 
Fisk  at  the  funeral  services  of  Mr.  Jesse  Whitehead, 
one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  west. 

Mr.  Whitehead  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  Novem- 
ber, 1800.     His  father,  a  wholesale  merchant  of  that  city, 

^  Mr.  Charles  M.  Smith,  son  of  Mr.  Elijah  Smith,  member  of  the  choir  in  the 
"  Wooden  Church."  died  February  2'',  1S96.  ayed  fifty-seven  years. 


62  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

removed  with  his  family  in  1812  to  Wheeling-,  Va.  When 
Jesse  had  grown  to  manhood,  he  decided  to  g-o  farther 
west  and  make  a  start  in  life  for  himself.  Early  in  the 
"forties"  he  came  to  Madison,  Ind.,  then  a  prosperous 
town  on  the  Ohio  River,  where  he  started  in  business  as  a 
merchant.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  recog-nize  the  possi- 
bilities of  the  steamboat  interests  on  the  Ohio  River,  and 
built  larg-e  ship  yards  at  Madison.  Later,  with  Mr. 
Chauncey  B.  Blair,  Mr.  Hug-h  McCulloug-h,  afterward 
secretary  of  the  treasury,  and  others,  he  orgfanized  the 
system  of  state  banks  throug-hout  Indiana.  Mr.  Whitehead 
came  toChicag-o  in  1863. 

January  29 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Mr.  Barrows.  Text,  "  From 
everlasting-  to  everlasting-  Thou  art  God." 

February  12 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Georg-e  C.  Lorimer,  D.D. 
Text,  "I  am  the  way,  the  truth  and  the  life." 

April  9 — Easter  celebration.     Festival   service   for  solo 

voices  and  chorus. 
Easter  sermon  by  Rev.  Mr.  Barrows:     "If  Christ  be  not 

risen,  then  is  your  faith  vain." 

May  21 — Miss  Emily  Winant,  of  New  York,  sang-  for  the 
offertor}^  "  Christmas  Song-  "  (Adam). 

May  28 — Mrs.  E.  Aline  Osg-ood  sang- for  the  offertory,  "I 
Know  that  My  Redeemer  Liveth  "  (Handel). 

During-  the  absence  of    Mr.  Eddy  in  the    month  of 
Aug-ust,  his  place  was  filled  by  Mr.  L.  J.  Henderson. 

Skptember  10 — Mr.  Eddy  at  home: 

Organ  Prelude — Adeste,  Fideles,      -         -         -      Guilmant. 
Organ  Postlude— Concert  Satz,  in  E  Moll,     -  Thiele. 

Mr.  Barrows'   text,    St.   Matthew    vi:  33,     "But  seek  ye 
first  the  kingdom  of  God  and  His  rig-hteousness." 

September  17 — An  address  in  the  evening  by  Miss  Wil- 
lard,  on  "Temperance." 

November  5 — Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson  beg-an  his  labors  as 
pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 

November  30 — Union  Thanksg-iving- services: 

Organ — First  Sonata,  First  Movement,     -         Mendelssohn. 
Anthem — Cantate  Domino  in  D,         -         -      S.  P.  Warren. 


THE    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH,    N.  W.    CORNER    OK    MICHIGAN 
AVE?JUE    AND    TWENTIETH    STREET.       ERECTED 

IN  1872-73. 


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Anthem — Praise  God  in  His  Holiness,     -         -  Tours. 

Anthem — Sing  Praises  to  God,  ...        Wareing-. 

Organ — Harvest  March  in  C,    -         -         -         -  Calkin. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  Frank  Bristol,  of  the  Trinity  AI.  E. 
Church. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks  and 
Miss  Dora  B.  Foreman,  sopranos ;  Miss  May  Phoenix, 
alto;  Mr.  John  Rattenbury,  tenor,  and  Mr.  William 
Sprag-ue,  bass.     Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  organist. 

1883. 

February  18 — Evening  services  began  at  Central  Music 
Hall,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  with 
the  assistance  of  the  church  choir  and  a  chorus  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  W.  L.  Tomlins.  Mr.  Clarence 
Eddy,  organist. 

These  services,  held  in  the  heart  of  the  down  town 
district  of  our  city,  were  conducted  every  Sunday  evening 
through  the  winter  until  May  13,  and  the  results  were  in 
every  way  gratifying.  It  was  an  inspiration  to  hear  the 
great  audience  sing  the  hymns  on  Sunday  nights.  There 
was  one  commendable  feature  in  the  management  of  the 
hall.  When  every  seat  was  occupied,  the  doors  were 
closed  and  no  more  were  admitted.  Many  were  often 
turned  away,  unable  to  get  admission,  but  the  safety  and 
comfort  of  those  in  the  hall  were  thus  secured.  The 
maintenance  of  these  services,  until  discontinued  in  1888, 
was  undertaken  by  a  committee  from  the  First  Church, 
consisting  of  Messrs.  John  Ailing,  George  F.  Bissell,  A.  C. 
Bartlett,  Alfred  Cowles,  Nathan  Corwith,  Henry  Corwith, 
John  B.  Drake,  Marshall  Field,  Charles  D.  Hamill,  Henry 
M.  Humphrey,  Marvin  Hughitt,  Charles  M.  Henderson, 
David  W.  Irwin,  Claudius  B.  Nelson,  George  H.  Lafiin, 
D.  K.  Pearsons,  Byron  L.  Smith,  H.  M.  Sherwood,  F.  F. 
Spencer  and  William  H.  Swift. 

February  25 — An  address  given  at  Central  Music  Hall  this 
evening  bv  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  on  John  Stuart 
Mill. 

March  25 — Easter  celebration.  A  musical  service  for  solo 
voices  and  chorus.  The  choir  gallery  and  pulpit  deco- 
rated with  flowers  and  plants,  the  gift  of  Mr.  F.  F. 
Spencer. 


64  -^  HISTORY  OF  THE 

April  15 — 

Organ — Adagio,  First  Sonata,         -         -      H.  M.  Dunham. 
Anthem — Hear  My  Prayer,      -         -         -         -         Southard. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  D.D.,  of  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church. 

May  20 — Miss  Esther  Butler  resigned  to  take  a  choir  posi- 
tion in  New  York  City.     Mrs.  J.  C.  Buckbee,  soprano. 

Junk  24— Celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the 
church : 

Organ — Festival  Overture,         -         -         .         -  Nicolai. 

Te  Deum  in  G,             ..--__  Calkin. 

Anthem — O  Saving  Victim,       .         -         -         -  Gounod. 

Festival  Hymn — Rise,  Crovi^ned  v^^ith  Light,   -  -       Otis. 

Organ — Prelude  and  Fugue,  Old  Hundred,    -  -     Eddy. 

Historical  sermon  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.;  text, 
"What  hath  God  wroug-ht?"  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter, 
D.D.,  founder  (1833-35),  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D., 
second  pastor  of  this  church  (1839-49),  Rev.  Arthur 
Mitchell,  D.D.,  fifth  pastor  (1868-80),  and  Rev.  R.  W. 
Patterson,  D.D.,  first  pastor  of  the  Second  Presby- 
terian Church  (1842-74),  took  part  in  the  services. 

The  choir:  Sopranos:  Mrs.  J.  C.  Buckbee,  Mrs.  A.  M. 
Sheib,  Miss  Marg-aret  P.  Sperry  and  Miss  Flora  M. 
Williams;  altos:  Mrs.  J.  T.  Kempton  and  Mrs.  Fannie 
Harrison;  tenors:  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  George 
E.  Dawson:  basses:  Mr.  John  M.  Hubbard  and  Mr. 
Charles  S.  Lee.     Org-anist,  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy. 

In  the  evening"  a  union  communion  service  of  the  First  and 
Second  Churches  was  held  in  the  First  Church,  the 
service  at  the  table  being  conducted  by  the  venerable 
former  pastors  of  the  church,  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter, 
D.D.,  and  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D. 

June  26 — Monday  evening,  fellowship  meeting  at  the 
church.  Addresses  made  bv  Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson. 
D.D.  (Second  Presbyterian),  Rev.H.M.  Scudder,  D.D. 
(Plymouth  Congregational),  Rev.  A.  E.  Kittredge,  D.D. 
(Third  Presbyterian),  Rt.  Rev.  Charles  E.  Cheney, 
D.D.  (Christ  Reformed  Episcopal),  Rev.  Frank  Bristol 
(Trinity  M.  E.)  and  Rev.  Herrick  Johnson,  D.D.  The 
music  was  an  important  feature,  the  large  choir  of 
Sunday  morning  being  assisted  by  Miss  May  Phoenix 
(A.),  Mr.  Charles  A.  Knorr  (T.)  and  Mr.  William 
Sprague  (B.). 


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June  27 — Tuesday  evening-.  The  jubilee  exercises  termi- 
nated in  a  reception  held  in  the  parlors  of  the  church. 

July  15 — Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher  in  the  pulpit.  A 
great  crowd  took  possession  of  the  church  early  in  the 
morning-,  to  the  exclusion  of  the  reg-ular  attendants. 
Mr.  Beecher's  sermon  was  on  "Love  and  Christianity," 
in  which  he  put  forth  some  advanced  ideas  on  relig-ion. 

August  26  and  September  2 — Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin  org-anist 
in  the  absence  of  Mr.  Eddy. 

October  7 — Evening-  services  began  at  Central  Music  Hall. 

November  11 — The  400th  anniversary  of  Martin  Luther's 
birth  observed : 

Organ — Theme  and  Variations,  Luther  Chorale,    -    Eddy. 
Anthem  —  Selections    from    Cantata,    A    Stronghold 

Sure, Bach. 

Anthem — The  Lord  is  Great  in  Zion,         -         -         -      Best. 
Organ— Festival  Overture,  .         -         -         _  Nicolai. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  on  "Martin  Luther 
and  the  Reformation." 

1884. 

January  27 — The  service  at  Central  Music  Hall  this  even- 
ing- was  in  the  interest  of  the  cause  of  "Prohibition  of 
Sale  of  Liquors  to  Minors. "  Addresses  were  made  by 
Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  Rev.  Edward  E.  Hale, 
D.  D.,  of  Boston,  Messrs.  Hortou  and  Bonney. 

FiEBRUARY  17 — Dr.  Barrow^s' address  at  Central  Music  Hall 
in  the  evening-  on  "Some  Personal  Reminiscences  of 

Wendell  Phillips." 

April  6 — Rev.  Walter  Manning-  Barrows,  D.D.,  brother  of 
Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  spoke  at  Central  Music 
Hall  in  the  evening-  on  his  eig-ht  years  of  missionary 
work  among-  the  Mormons  in  Utah. 

Rev.  Walter  Manning  Barrows,  D.D.,  died  at  Mackinaw 

Island,  Aug-ust  10,  1899. 

May  4— 

Organ — Adagio,  Sixth  Symphony,       -         -         -         Widor. 
Anthem— The  Lord  is  Exalted,             -         -        J.  E.  West, 
Offertory — Blessed  Are  They  that  Do  God's  Command- 
ments,       -         - Armes. 

Organ — Triumphal  March,  -         -     C.  Sainton  Dolby. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton. 


(j(,  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

May  11 — Rev.  Frank  Bristol  took  part  in  the  evening-  ser- 
vices at  Central  Music  Hall,  preaching-  on  the  subject 
"The  love  of  money  the  root  of  all  evil." 

June  22 — Members  of  the  choir  took  part  in  the  service  at 
Railroad  Chapel  this  evening.  Mr.  Francis  Murphy 
spoke  in  the  interest  of  the  temperance  work,  and  gave 
a  simple,  touching  account  of  his  life  when  a  child  in 
Ireland,  and  his  departure  for  this  country. 

August  10,  17 — Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin,  organist. 

August  24,  31— Mr.  A.  F.  McCarrell,  organist. 

September  7 — The  first  organ  number  this  morning-,  the 
prelude  to  Saint-Saens'  oratorio,  "The  Delug-e,"  was 
very  appropriate,  as  the  rain  was  coming  down  in  tor- 
rents. 

October  12 — All  the  selections  this  morning  by  Joseph 
Rheinberger,  the  "Pastoral  Sonata"  and  the  two 
motettes,  "I  Am  Well  Pleased"  and  "The  Lord  Give 
Ear  to  Thee." 

November  2 — Evening  services  began  at  Central  Music 
Hall. 

November  30 — Sermon  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  on 
"Foreign  Missions." 

December  28 — Christmas  service.  A  day  of  sleet  and  rain, 
walks  covered  with  ice,  and  the  attendance  in  church 
small.  An  elaborate  display  of  flowers  about  the  choir 
g-allery  and  pulpit.  The  choir  numbers  all  important 
and  well  sung,  especially  Henry  Gadsby's  anthem, 
"Sing,  O  Daughter  of  Zion."  Sermon  by  Dr.  Barrows 
on  the  subject  of  home  missions. 

1885 

March  1 — Sermon  at  Central  Music  Hall  this  evening-  by 
Dr.  Barrows,  on  "  Mahomet  and  His  Religion." 

March  IS — 

Anthem — Benedictus,  in  C,         -         -         -         S.  P.  Warren. 
Offertorj' — The  Pilgrims,  .         .         -         .  Leslie. 

March  29 — Rev.  Dr.  Allen,  secretary  of  the  Freed  men's 
Board,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  at  one  time  a  slave 
owner,  as  were  his-  fathers  before  him,  occupied 
the  pulpit  this  morning,  preaching  in  the  interests  of 


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the  freedmen.     The  death  of  Mr.   C.  B.  Nelson,  an 
elder  of  this  church,  was  announced. 

April  1  —  Wednesday  afternoon  :  Dr.  Barrows  and  the 
choir  took  part  in  the  funeral  services  of  Mr.  C.  B. 
Nelson,  at  his  residence  in  Hyde  Park. 

April  19 — Dr.  Barrows'  sermon  had  special  reference  to 
the  death  of  Mr.  Henry  D.  Penfield,  Jr.,  which  oc- 
curred last  week. 

April  26 — Evening-  services  at  Central  Music  Hall  closed. 

May  24—  Mr.  Louis  P.  Hoy t,  org-anist. 

May  31— 

Organ — Meditation,              -              -  -  F.  Capocci. 

Anthem — Bonum  Est,  in  G,             -  -  -           Buck. 

Offertory--0  Lord,  Most  Holy,     -  -  Schubert-Otis. 

Org-an — Finale,         ...  -  F.  Capocci. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  W.  A.  Bartlett,  D.D.,  of  Washing-ton,  D.C. 

During-  the  month  of  July  extensive  repairs  were  made 
in  the  church,  and  union  services  were  held  in  the  Second 
Presbyterian  Church,  Dr.  Barrows  occupying-  the  pulpit 
nearly  all  of  the  month.  During-  the  month  of  August 
union  services  were  held  in  the  First  Church,  Rev.  E.  C. 
Ray,  D.D.,  occupying  the  pulpit. 

August  9 — A  service  in  memory  of  Ex-President  Grant. 

Offertory — O  for  a  Closer  Walk  with  God,  -        Foster. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  E.  C.  Ray,  D.D. 

November   15 — Evening-  services  at  Central   Music  Hall 
resumed. 

December  6 — 

Organ — 2d  Sonata,  -  -  Rheinberger. 

Sermon  by  Dr.  Barrows,  St.  John  i:  29,  *' Behold  the  Lamb 
of  God." 

December  20 — 

Offertory — If  with  All  Your  Hearts,        -  Mendelssohn. 

Mr.  R,  M.  Sterrett. 

1886 

January  3 — Choir  for  the  coming  year  :  Miss  Carrie  Davis 
(S.),  Miss  Christine  Nielson  (A.),  Mr.  E.  M.  Sterrett 


68  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

(T.),  Mr.  Eug-ene  C.  Cowles  (B. ).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy 
org-anist  and  director. 

Anthem — I  will  Sing-  of  Thy  Power,  -  Sullivan. 

January  10 — 

Offertorj^ — Hear  My  Prayer,  -  -  Mendelssohn. 

Miss  Davis. 

January  15 — Members  of  the  choir  took  part  in  the  fun- 
eral services  of  Mr.  Daniel  Amasa  Jones,  conducted 
by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  and  Prof.  Franklin  W. 
Fisk,  D.D.  The  ladies  from  the  "Old  People's  Home" 
came  in  a  body  to  pay  final  respects  to  their  benefactor. 

Mr.  Jones  was  born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  June  29,  1807; 
came  to  Chicago  in  1859.  He  was  one  of  the  trustees  of 
Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  and  a  member  of  the  com- 
mittee instrumental  in  bring-ing-  about  the  union  with  the 
First  Church;  died  in  Chicag^o,  January  11,  1886. 

January  17 — 

Offertory — God  shall  Wipe  Away  All  Tears  from 

Their  Eyes,  ...  Sullivan. 

Miss  Christine  Nielson. 

January  24 — 

Offertory— Judge  Me,  O  God,  -  -  -  Buck. 

Mr.  Eugene  C.  Cowles. 

April  25 — Easter  service  by  reg-ular  choir.  Offering-  this 
morning-  for  Railroad  Chapel,  $7,400. 

May  2 — Sermon  by  Mr.  Dwig-ht  L.  Moody. 

May  9 — Dr.  Barrows  announced  from  the  pulpit  that  he 
should  spend  the  summer  in  Europe,  leaving-  home 
early  in  June.  Sermon  by  Rev.  Dr.  Dana.  (Rev. 
Herrick  Johnson,  D.D.,  filled  the  pulpit  during-  the 
summer  months.) 

May  20 — Funeral  services  of  Mrs.  Augustus  G.  Downs,  at 
her  late  residence,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Bar- 
rows, D.D.,  and  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  D.D.,  assisted  by 
members  of  the  choir.  A  reception  was  held  in  the 
church  in  the  evening-  for  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Barrows. 

July  24 — Funeral  services  of  Dr.  R.  C,  Ramill  held  at  the 
church.     Mr.  A.  W.  Dohn,  org-anist. 

Dr.RobertC.Hamillwas  born  at  Xenia.Ohio, November 
26, 1808;  came  to  Cliicag-o  in  1858.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Hamill  were 


MRS.   CHRISTINE   NIELSON   DREIER. 


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69 


received  into  the  membership  of  the  First  Church  April 
28,  1858.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  Academy 
of  Medical  Sciences,  in  1859';  took  an  active  part,  during- 
the  Civil  War,  in  the  org-anization  of  the  Soldiers'  Rest  and 
the  Soldiers'  Home.  Pie  was  consulting-  physician  of  Cook 
County  Hospital  in  1866;  vice-president  of  the  Presbyte- 
rian Hospital,  trustee  of  Rush  Medical  College,  and  had 
been  a  member  of  the  Session  of  the  First  Church  for 
many  years. 

December  12 — 

Offertory — Sing  Ye  Praise  (Hymn  of  Praise),  Mendelssohn. 
Mr.  Charles  Abercrombie. 

December  26 — Christmas  service.  The  principal  choir 
numbers  were  Tours'  anthem,  "Sing-,  Ye  Heavens," 
and  Gilchrist's  motette,  "It  Came  upon  the  Midnig-ht 
Clear."  The  reg-ular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss 
Florence  H.  Henderson  and  Miss  Genie  M.  Baldwin, 
sopranos;  Mrs.  Ag-nes  Cox  and  Miss  Lillian  B.  Allen, 
altos;  Mr.  Charles  Abercrombie,  tenor;  Mr.  W.  P. 
McHenry,  bass.    Org-anist,  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy. 

1887. 

January  2 — The  choir  for  the  coming-  year  :  Miss  Esther 
Butler  (S.),  Miss  Christine  Nielson  (A.),  Mr.  Charles 
Abercrombie  (T.),  and  Mr.  Eug-ene  C.  Cowles  (B.). 
Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  organist  and  director. 

January  16 — Choir  enlarg-ed  for  the  Sunday  morning-  serv- 
ices: three  sopranos,  three  altos,  two  tenors  and  two 
basses — to  continue  for  the  present. 

April  10 — Easter  service  : 

Org-an — Jerusalem,  the  Golden,     -         -         -         .       Spark. 
Anthem — God  hath  Appointed  a  Day,  -         -       Tours. 

Anthem — O  Saving  Victim,  -         -         .         .    Gounod. 

Anthem — Why  Seek  Ye  the  Living  among  the  Dead, 

S.  P.  Warren. 
Easter  Song — The  Resurrection,  -         -         -     Shelley. 

Miss  Christine  Nielson. 
Offertory — See  Now  the  Altar   Garlanded    with 

Flowers, Faure-Buck. 

Easter  Sermon,        -         -  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 

Address  on  behalf  of  Railroad  Chapel,       -         -         - 

Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton. 
Organ — Hallelujah   Chorus  (Mount  of   Olives)  Beethoven. 

The  church  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  Lillie  Hin- 
man,  Miss  Jessica   Jenks   and    Mrs.  C.  W.  Rhodes, 


70  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

sopranos;  Miss  M.  J.  Kirkland  and  Miss  Stella  Law- 
rence, altos;  Mr,  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  Harry  T. 
Stallwood,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee  and  Mr.  John 
M.  Hubbard,  Jr.,  basses;  Mr.  Clarence  Edd}^  org-anist. 

May  22. — Funeral  services  of  Mrs.  Charles  Hunting-ton 
Starkweather  held  at  the  residence  of  her  father,  Mr. 
James  Otis,  1216  Michig-an  Avenue,  conducted  by  Rev. 
John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  assisted  b}^  the  choir  of  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church. 

June  23. — Funeral  services  of  Otis  Starkweather,  oldest 
son  of  Mr.  Charles  Huntington  Starkweather  and  the 
late  Rena  Otis  Starkweather,  held  at  the  residence  of 
his  g"randfather,  Mr.  James  Otis,  1216  Michig-an 
Avenue,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D., 
with  the  assistance  of  the  choir  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church. 

September  28. — Wednesday  afternoon:  funeral  services  of 
Mr.  William  Cutting  Grant. 

Mr.  Grant  was  born  at  Lyme,  N.  H.,  October  8,  1829. 
He  came  to  Chicago  in  1857,  and  for  some  years  was  a 
partner  in  the  law  firm  of  Williams,  Woodbridg-e  &  Grant. 
Later  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Grant  &  Swift;  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  September  24,  1887,  he  was  a 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Grant,  Brady  &  Northrup.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Grant  were  admitted  to  the  membership  of  this 
church  in  March,  1858. 

December  25. — Christmas  service: 

Organ — Offertory    on    two    Christmas    Hymns, 

No.  2,  ...-.--         Guilmant. 

Anthem — The  Syrian  Shepherds,  -         -         -  Otis. 

Anthem — There  were  Shepherds  Abiding  in  the 

Field,  -------  Vogrich. 

Offertory — Christmas     (Sweetly     through      the 

Night), Shelley. 

Christmas   Song — Nazareth,  ...         -   Gounod. 

Mr.  Eugene  C.  Cowles. 

Organ— Hallelujah  Chorus, Handel. 

The  reg-ular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  P.  R.  Carlson, 
Mrs.  D.  C.  Joslyn  and  Miss  Bessie  Butler,  sopranos; 
Mrs.  Agnes  Cox  and  Miss  Stella  Lawrence,  altos;  Mr. 
Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  D.  A.  Clippinger,  tenors;  Mr. 
Charles  S.  Lee  and  Mr.  Frank  Pearson,  basses.  Mr. 
Clarence  Eddy,  organist  and  director. 


THE  FIRST    PRESBVTERIAN    CHURCH— N.   E.    CORNER    INDIANA  AVENUE 
AND  TWENTY- FIRST  STREET,    1887. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  71 

1888. 

January  1.— The  choir:  Miss  Esther  Butler  (S.),  Miss 
Christine  Nielson  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and 
Mr.  C.  H.  Greenleaf  (B).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  org-anist 
and  director. 

January  15. — New  hymn  and  tune  book,  the  "  Laudes 
Domini,"  introduced. 

February  18. — Funeral    services   of    Mr.    Philo    Adams 

V/ilbor,  held  at  the  residence  of  Mr.  Joseph  E.  Otis, 

•conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrovv's,  D.D.,  and  Rev. 

Simon  J.  McPherson,  B.D.,  with  the  assistance  of  the 

choir. 

Mr.  Wilbor  was  born  in  Huron,  Erie  county,  Ohio. 
He  was  g-raduated  from  Western  Reserve  Colleg-e,  in 
Hudson,  Ohio,  in  June,  1866,  and  came  to  Chicago  in 
Aug-ust  of  that  year.  He  entered  the  employ  of  the  First 
National  Bank  soon  after  his  arrival,  and  continued  with 
the  bank  until  the  time  of  his  death.  Mr.  Wilbor  was  for 
many  years  a  teacher  in  the  church  Sunday  School  and 
Railroad  Mission  School. 

April  1 — Easter  service : 

Org-an — Alleluia,  from  Easter  Sonata,    -         -       Lemmens. 
Anthem — Kingf,  All  Glorious,  ...  Barnby. 

Anthem — Hark,  Hark,  My  Soul,      -         -         .  Shelley. 

Anthem — I  Waited  for  the  Lord,       -         -         Mendelssohn. 

Miss  Butler,  Miss  Hiltz  and  Chorus. 
Anthem — God  hath  Appointed  a  Day,       -         -  Tours. 

Organ — Easter  March,       ..'.-.  Merkel. 

The  regular  choir  Vv'as  assisted  by  Miss  Grace  Hiltz  and 
Miss  Florence  H.  Henderson,  sopranos;  Miss  Stella 
Lawrence  and  Mrs.  Agnes  Cox,  altos;  Mr.  Philo  A. 
Otis,  tenor;  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  bass.  Org-anist,  Mr. 
Clarence  Eddy. 

May  6 — Annual  collection  for  Railroad  Chapel;  $6,400  sub- 
scribed. 

Miss  Fannie  Aiken  (S.)  succeeds  Miss  Esther  Butler,  and 
Mr.  George  H.  lott  succeeds  Mr.C.  H.  Greenleaf  (B.). 

August  5 — Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin,  organist,  in  the  absence 
of  Mr.  Eddy. 

November  29 — Union  Thanksg-iving-  services  by  the  First 
and  Second  Presbyterian,  Plymouth  Congregational, 


72  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Immanuel  Baptist,  Christ  Reformed  Episcopal  and 
Trinity  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches,  held  in  the 
First  Church: 

Organ— Jerusalem,  the  Golden,        .         .         -  Spark. 

Anthem — Ye  shall  Dwell  in  the  L#and,              -  Stainer. 

Oifertory — Thanksg'iving  Anthem,            -         -  Schnecker, 

Organ — Thanksgiving  March,           ...  Calkin. 

The  choir:  Miss  Fannie  Aiken  (S.),  Miss  Christine  Niel- 
son  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and  Mr.  A.  D. 
Eddy  (B.).     Mr.   Clarence  Eddy,  organist. 

December  23 — Christmas  service,  for  solo  voices  and 
chorus : 

Oifertory — Our  Psalm  of  Joy  (Noel),       -         -  Gounod. 

1889. 

Choir  for  this  year:  Miss  Fannie  Aiken  (S.),  Miss  Christine 
Nielson  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.),  Mr.  Georg-e  H. 
lott  (B.).     Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  organist  and  director. 

January  20 — Death  of  Rev.  Georg-e  C.  Noyes,  D.D.,  of 
Evanston,  announced — a  great  lover  of  music.  Dr. 
Noyes  took  part  in  the  installation  services  of  Dr. 
Barrows  as  pastor  of  this  church,  December  8,  1881, 
delivering"  the  charg-e  to  the  people. 

April  7 — Annual  collection  for  Railroad  Chapel;  $6,600 
subscribed. 

April  21 — Easter  celebration: 

Organ — Alleluia  from  Easter  Sonata,      -         -      Lemmens. 
Anthem — Awake,  thou  that  Sleepest,        -         -  Maker. 

Carol — Sweetly  the  Birds  are  Singing,  -  Draper. 

Anthem — Faintly  and  Softly  the  Rosy  Shaft  of  Morn- 
ing,       --------     Schnecker. 

Aria — I  Know  That  My  Redeemer  Liveth,      -  Handel. 

Miss  Aiken. 
Anthem — See  Now  the  Altar  Garlanded  with  Flowers, 

Faure-Buck. 
Organ — Easter  March, Merkel. 

April  28 — Patriotic  service,  consisting  of  national  songs  by 
the  choir  and  a  sermon  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 
Subject,  "The  Birth  of  a  Nation." 

April  30 — Tuesday  morning.  Centennial  celebration  of 
the  nation's  birthday.  The  regular  choir  was  assisted 
to-day  by  Miss  Genie  M.  Baldwin  (S.),  Mrs.  Katherine 
Fisk  (A.),  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.),  Mr.  F.  M.  Ram- 
sey (B.)  and  the  Elgin  Band,  under  the  direction  of 


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Mr.  J,  Hecker.  National  song-s  were  sung-  by  the 
choir,  Sunday  School  and  cong-reg^ation,  and  an  address 
was  delivered  by  Dr.  Barrows;  subject,  "A  Hundred 
Years."  The  church  was  decorated  with  flag-s,  and  a 
prog-ram,  printed  in  the  national  colors,  with  a  portrait 
of  Georg-e  Washing-ton,  was  prepared  for  the  occasion. 

May  31 — Funeral  services  of  Mr.  Nathan  Corwith,  con- 
ducted by  Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  D.D.,  with  the  assist- 
ance of  the  choir  of  the  First  Church. 

From  June  1  to  October  1  Mr.  Edd}^  was  in  Europe, 
and  his  place  was  filled  by  Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin.  Miss 
Christine  Nielson  resigned  in  May,  to  g-o  abroad  for  study, 
and  her  place  v/as  taken  by  Mrs.  Katherine  Fisk.  The 
church  was  closed  during-  the  months  of  July  and  Aug-ust 
for  repairs.  During-  September  services  were  held  in  the 
lecture  room  on  Sunday  mornings. 

June  2 — Sermon  this  morning  by  Rev.  Thomas  C.  Hall,  D.D. 

September  15 — Mr.  George  H.  lott  (B.)  tendered  his  resig- 
nation. Succeeded  on  November  10  by  Mr.  Arthur 
Beresford. 

A  series  of  praise  services  was  commenced  Sunday 
evening,  November  24,  in  the  church  and  was  continued 
through  the  winter,  a  large  audience  being  in  attendance 
at  every  service. 

December  29 — Morning  service : 

Offertory — O  Rest  in  the  Lord,  -         -         Mendelssohn. 

Miss  Gertrude  Edraands. 

A  Christmas  service  was  held  in  the  evening : 

Organ — Christmas  Pastorale,  ...  Merkel. 

Anthem — Christmas,  .         -         -         -         -  Shelley. 

For  Soprano  Solo,  Ladies'  Quartette,  Chorus,  Harp, 

Violin  and  Organ. 

Song — In  Dreams  I've  Heard  the  Seraphs,      -  Faure. 

Largo, Handel. 

Harp,  Violin  and  Organ. 
Sermon — The  Old  Year,     -       Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 
Carol— Thou  didst  Leave-Thy  Throne,    -         -  Povv^ell. 

Organ — Grand  Solemn  March,  ....     Smart. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Lillian  E.  Ran- 
dall and  Miss  M.  L.  Davis,  sopranos;  Miss  Rose  Bil- 
ton,   alto;    Mr.  E.  C.   Greenleaf,  tenor;    Mr.   John  S. 


74  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Carpenter,  bass;  harp,  Madame  Josephine  Chatterton; 
violin,  Mr.  Adolph  Rosenbecker.  Organist,  Mr.  Clar- 
ence Eddy. 

1 


The  choir  for  the  ensuing-  year:  Miss  Fannie  Aiken  (S.), 
Mrs.  Katherine  Fisk  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.), 
and  Mr.  Arthur  Beresford  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy, 
org-anist  and  director. 

Miss  Aiken  resig-ned.  May  1,  and  her  place  was  taken 
by  Miss  Electa  Gifford.  Commencing-  with  the  first  Sun- 
day in  May  of  this  year,  a  printed  prog-ramme,  or  bulletin, 
containing-  full  order  of  service,  words  of  anthems,  and 
authors'  names,  titles  of  organ  selections,  announcements 
for  the  week,  etc.,  etc.,  was  distributed  throug-h  the  pews, 
thereby  increasing-  the  interest  in  the  Sunday  morning 
service.  The  position  of  organist  during  the  month  of 
August  was  again  occupied  by  Mr.  Charles  D^  Irwin. 

August  18 — Monday  afternoon  :  Dr.  Barrows,  assisted  by 
members  of  the  choir,  conducted  the  funeral  services 
of  Mrs.  Rebecca  H.  Whitehead. 

December  14 — Sermon  b}^  Rev.  Dr.  Worcester  on  Foreign 
Missions. 

December  28 — Christmas  celebration: 

MORNING   service. 

Organ — Christmas  Pastorale,  ...  Merkel. 

Anthem — There  Were  Shepherds,  -  -  Blumenschein. 
Carol— Thank  God  on  Christmas  Morning,     -  Hatton. 

Sung  by  the  Sunday  School  children,  led  by 
Mr,  Adam  Craig,  leader. 
Recitative  and  Aria — Behold,  a  Virgin  shall  Conceive, 

Handel. 
Mrs.  Fisk. 
Anthem— See  Now  the  Altar,     -         -         -  Faure-Buck. 

Sermon — The  Messiah  has  Come,     -         -         -         - 

Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 
Carol— The  Blessed  Story,         ....  Geibel. 

Sung  by  the  Sunday  School. 
Organ — For  unto  Us  a  Child  is  Born,  -  Handel. 

EVENING    service. 

Organ— Christmas  Offertoire  in  C,  -  -  -  Grison. 
Organ — March  of  the  Magi  Kings,  -  -  -  Dubois. 
Violin  and  Organ — Benedictus,  -         -  MacKenzie. 

Song— Christmas, Shelley. 

Miss  Gifford,  violin  and  organ. 


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Flute  and  Organ— Prayer,  -         -         -  Terschack. 

Anthem — The  Syrian  Shepherds,       -         -         .  Otis. 

Sermon — The  Wonderful,     -     Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 
Anthem — Arise  and  Shine,  -         -         .         .         Maker. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,  -         -         .         .        Handel. 

The  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  E.  P.  Arters,  Miss 
Lillian  E.  Randall,  Miss  M.  L.  Davis,  sopranos;  Miss 
Rose  Bilton,  alto;  Mr.  C.  W.  Crankshaw,  tenor;  Mr. 
Frank  Pearson,  bass.  Organist,  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy; 
violin,  Mr.  Adolph  Rosenbecker;  flute,  Mr.  E.  S.  Tim- 
mons;  cornet,  Mr.  John  Quinn. 

1891. 

The  choir  for  the  year:  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.),  Mrs. 
Katherine  Fisk  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and 
Mr.  Arthur  Beresford  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy, 
org-anist  and  director. 

January  18— Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  occupied  the 
pulpit  this  morning-. 

Mrs.  Katherine  Fisk  (Katie  Louise  Tanner),  whose 
work  with  the  choir  ended  May  10,  was  born  at  Clinton 
function.  Wis.  A  graduate  of  the  college  at  Rockford,  111., 
she  was  married  to  Mr.  Franklin  P.  Fisk,  principal  of  the 
Northwestern  High  School,  of  Chicago,  and  made  her 
first  appearance  in  "The  Messiah,"  December  26,  1890. 
She  went  to  England  in  1891.  Returning  to  this  country 
early  in  1893,  she  appeared  at  the  Worcester,  Mass., 
Festival  of  that  year,  and  with  the  Handel  and  Haydn 
Society,  of  Boston,  in  "The  Messiah,"  December  24,  1893. 
This  same  year  she  was  actively  engaged  in  the  concerts  at 
the  World's  Columbian  Exposition.  She  returned  to  Europe 
in  1893,  remaining  there  three  years.  Among  her  many 
engagements  may  be  mentioned  the  Gloucester  Festival 
of  1895,  the  Norwich  Festival  of  1896,  and  the  London 
Philharmonic,  March  19,  1898.  Mrs.  Fisk  now  resides  in 
New  York  City,  and  is  solo  contralto  at  St.  Bartholomevv-'s 
Church. 

May  17— New  building  of  Railroad  Chapel,  at  3825  Dear- 
born street,  formally  opened  to-day. 

Mrs.  Christine  Nielson  Dreier  returned  to  her  old  position 
in  the  choir. 


76  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

June  14. — Mr.  Arthur  Beresford  resigns  and  is  succeeded 
by  Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen  (B.). 

September  27 — 

Organ  Postliide — Fantasia  in  C  minor,     -      Thiele-Haupt. 
Mr.  William  Middelschulte. 

Rev.  Herrick  Johnson,  D.O.,  occupied  the  pulpit  Octo- 
ber 25.  Subject  of  his  sermon,  "Blessed  Companionship," 
based  on  the  text,  " Enoch  walked  with  God."  The  fol- 
lowing Sunday,  November  1,  Rev.  E.  C.  Ray,  D.D., 
preached  from  this  pulpit  on  the  same  text. 

December  27 — Christmas  music  for  solo  voices  and  chorus. 

1892. 

The  choir:  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.),  Mrs.  Christine  N. 
Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and  Mr.  E.  A. 
Allen  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  organist  and  di- 
rector. 

April  10 — 

Offertory — The  Palm  Brandies,        -         -         -  Faure. 

Mr.  Arthur  Beresford. 

April  17 — Easter  service;  a  wet,  cold  day  : 

Organ — Funeral  March  and  Seraphic  Song,  Guilmant. 
Anthem — ^Awake,  Thou  that  Sleepest,  J.  Wallace  Goodrich. 
Carol— Chime  Softljs  Bells  of  Easter,  F.  N.  Shepperd. 
Anthem — Come,  See  the  Place  Where  Jesus  Lay, 

John  A.  West. 

Offertory — Easter, Shelley. 

Miss  Gifford. 
Organ  Finale — Laus  Deo,  .         .         -         .  Dubois. 

The  regular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Eva  P.  Arters, 
Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall  and  Miss  May  Keller,  so- 
pranos; Miss  Jennie  R.  Holmes  and  Miss  Rose  Bilton, 
altos;  Mr.  C.  W.  Crankshaw,  tenor,  and  Mr.  John  S. 
Carpenter,  bass. 

In  the  afternoon,  funeral  of  Mr.  L.  C.  P.  Freer.  Rev.  John 
H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  conducted  the  services,  assisted  by 
Mrs.  John  A.  Farwell  (S.),  Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson 
(A.),  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  (T.)  and  Mr.  John  M.  Hub- 
bard (B.). 

Mr.  Freer  was  born  September  18,  1813,  at  North 
East,  Dutchess  county,  state  of^New  York.  He  came  west 
in  1836,  commencing  life  in  a  small  town  in  Illinois  as  a 


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merchant.  Two  years  later  he  removed  to  Chicago  and 
beg-an  the  study  of  law.  In  after  life  he  became  especially 
successful  in  that  part  of  the  profession  pertaining-  to  the 
examination  of  land  titles,  owing  to  his  extensive  knowl- 
edge of  early  transactions  in  real  estate.  Mr.  Freer  died 
April  14,  1892. 

June  19 — The  Second  Presbyterian  Church  celebrated 
its  fiftieth  anniversary. 

Dr.  Barrows  was  absent  from  the  city  nearly  all  of  the 
summer  months,  on  account  of  his  health.  Rev.  Charles 
M.  Morton  preached  September  11;  Rev.  Herrick  Johnson, 
D.D.,  September  18;  Rev.  David  C.  Marquis,  D.D.,  Septem- 
ber 25. 

October  5 — Reception  at  the  church  this  evening  for  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  Barrows.  Music  by  Mr.  W.  C.  E.  Seeboeck, 
Mr.  E.  Schmitt,  and  members  of  the  choir. 

November  13 — A  window  built  by  the  Louis  Tiffany  Co., 
of  New  York,  in  memory  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  F. 
Spencer,  was  exhibited  to  day. 

The  inscription  reads : 

To  THE  Glory  of  God, 

AND  IN  Loving  Remembrance  of 

Franklin  Fayette  Spencer, 

Who  Died  November  1,  1890,  and  of 

Rachel  Gifford   Spencer, 
His  Wife,  Who  Died  March  18,  1887. 

December  25 — Christmas  music.  A  beautiful  day,  and  a 
large  attendance  in  church: 

V  Organ — Fantasie  on  Christmas  Hymns,         -         Guilmant. 

Anthem — Wake,  O  My  Soul,  -         -  Blumenschein. 

Carol — Ring  Out  a  Joyful  Peal,  -         -  Bunnett. 

Organ — Christmas  Pastoral,  -         -         G.  E.  Whiting. 

A   Pastoral  Christmas    anthem — While  Shepherds 

Watched  Their  Flocks  by  Night,  -    George  C.  Martin. 
Offertory — The  Star  of  Peace,       -         -  Henry  Parker. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 
Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,  ...  Handel. 

The  regular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Will  J.  Evans 
and  Miss  May  Keller,  sopranos;  Miss  Rose  Bilton, 
alto;  Mr.  C.  V/.  Crankshaw,  tenor,  and  Mr.  Frank 
Pearson,  bass. 


78  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

At  the  evening-  service  Mr,  Edouard  Remenyi,  tlie  Hun- 
g-arian  violinist,  played: 

1.  Ghezir,  for  violin  alone,    -         -         -  -  Remenyi. 

2.  Largo  with  organ,  -         -         .  .  Tartini. 

1893. 

The  choir:  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.),  Mrs.  Christine  N. 
Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and  Mr.  E.  A. 
Allen  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  org-anist  and  director. 

January  29 — Mr.  Edouard  Remenyi  took  part  in  the 
evening  service,  playing  the  aria  from  Handel's  "Mes- 
siah," "I  Know  that  My  Redeemer  Liveth." 

Sunday  evening-  praise  services  vv^ere  held  through  the 
winter  of  1892  and  1893,  and  the  entire  period  of  the 
World's  Fair,  and  in  the  spring  of  1894  were  discontinued. 
The  music  for  these  services  was  furnished  by  the  quar- 
tette alone,  with  the  assistance  of  occasional  instrumental- 
ists. Messrs.  Theodore  Spiering,  Harry  Dimond  and 
Adolph  Rosenbecker,  violinists,  and  Mr.  Edwin  S.  Tim- 
mons,  flute,  were  always  welcome  whenever  they  ap- 
peared, and  their  artistic  work  added  greatly  to  the 
interest  of  these  services. 

March  19 — Rev.  Theodore  Cuyler,  D.D.,  occupied  the 
pulpit  this  morning,  preaching  to  a  large  audience, 
from  the  text,   "  Let  us  arise  and  go  hence." 

At  the  evening  service  Rev.  Dewitt  Talmadge,  D.D., 
preached  to  another  great  audience,  on  the  text, 
"  The  statutes  of  the  Lord  are  right." 

April  2 — Easter  service.  A  beautiful  spring  day  and  a 
large  audience  in  church: 

Organ — Paschal  Sonata,  First  Movement,     -  Lemmens. 

Anthem — Awake,  Thou  that  Sleepest,             -  Maker. 

Anthem — O  Saving  Victim,              -         -          -  Gounod, 
Song — Easter  Dawn,       -         -         -         -      R.  H.  Woodman, 

Mrs.  Christine  N,  Dreier. 

Offertory — Christ  the  Lord  is  Risen  To-day,  -      Shelley, 

Organ — Pastoral  Sonata,  Finale,            -         -  Lemmens, 

The  regular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  May  Keller 
and  Miss  M.  Louise  Pomeroy,  sopranos;  Miss  Rose 
Bilton,  alto;  Mr.  C.  H.  M.  Tobey,  tenor,  and  Mr.  Frank 
Pearson,  bass. 


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At  the  evening-  service: 

Offertory— Prayer, Terschak, 

Mr,  Edwin  S.  Timmons  (flute). 

April  26-^Wednesdav  evening-.  Announcement  v^^as  made 
of  the  death  of  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  at  Sara- 
tog-a,  N.  Y.  The  entire  evening-  vv^as  given  over  to 
testimonies  of  affection  and  regard  for  the  former 
pastor  of  this  church. 

May  21 — Annual  collection  for  Railroad  Chapel.  Sermon 
by  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton.  Subscriptions  ag-g-reg-at- 
ing  $4,000  received  at  the  offertory. 

During  the  period  of  the  World's  Fair,  from  May  1  to 
November  1, 1893,  there  were  many  strangers  in  attendance 
at  the  Sunday  services  of  this  church:  ministers,  organists, 
choir  members  and  others  interested  in  the  various  forms 
of  church  work.  Among  the  visiting-  musicians  may  be 
noted:  Mr.  S.  B.  Whitney,  organist  of  the  Church  of  the 
Advent,  of  Boston;  Mr.  R.  Hunting-ton  Woodman,  organ- 
ist of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Brooklyn,  and  Mr. 
W.  C.  Carl,  organist  of  the  old  First  Presbyterian  Church 
of  New  York  City. 

August  27 — Sermon  at  the  morning-  service  by  Rev.  Mr. 
Hubbel,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

September  3 — Sermon  at  the  evening-  service  by  His  Grace 
the  Bishop  of  Zante.  At  the  conclusion  of  the  service 
M.  _  Alexander  Guilmant  gave  an  informal  organ 
recital,  the  congregation  remaining-  seated  at  the 
request  of  Dr.  Barrows. 

September  10 — The  window  in  memory  of  Rev.Zephaniah 
Moore  Humphrey,  D.D.,  built  by  the  Louis  Tiffany 
Co.,  of  New  York,  was  displayed  to-day. 

September  17 — Rev.  Dr.  Momery,  of  London,  preached  in 
the  morning-.  Rev.  Joseph  Cook,  D.D.,  in  the  evening. 

November  12— Sermon  by  Rev.  Leonard  Bacon,  D.D.,  of 
New  Haven,  Conn. 

November  17 — Death  of  John  Manning- Barrows,  oldest  son 
of  Dr.  and  Mrs.  J.  H.  Barrows. 

December  24 — Christmas  service: 

Org-an— The  Holy  Nig-ht,  .         .         .         .  Buck. 

Anthem— There  Were  Shepherds,     -  Myles  B.  Foster. 


80  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Carol — The  Anthem  of  Peace,            .  -  .  Barnby. 

Organ — March  of  the  Magfi  Kings,  -  -  Dubois, 

Anthem — Ho'.v  Brightly  Dawns,         .  -  -  Shelley. 

Offertory — The  Angels' Christmas  Song,  -  Brewer. 

Miss  Gifford. 

Anthem — Sing,  O  Daughter  of  Zion,  -  -  Gadsby. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,       -         .  .  .  Handel. 

The  reg-ular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  P.  B.  Wilson, 
Miss  Jessica  Jenks  and  Miss  Gertrude  Gilford,  so- 
pranos; Miss  Viola  Misch  and  Miss  Rose  Bilton,  altos; 
Mr.  P.  V.  R.  Key  and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr. 
Charles  H.  Bushnell  and  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  basses. 

1894. 

The  choir  for  the  new  year :  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.),  Mrs. 
Christine  N.  Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.)  and 
Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy,  or- 
ganist and  director. 

January  14 — Saturday.  Funeral  services  of  Dr.  Charles 
Gilman  Smith,  at  his  late  residence,  conducted  by  Rev. 
John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  with  the  assistance  of  the 
church  choir. 

Dr.  Smith's  g-rave  at  Graceland  is  marked  by  a  plain 
headstone,  bearing- the  inscription,  "Charles Gilman  Smith, 
a  Succorer  of  Many,"  For  forty  years  he  had  been  prom- 
inently identified  with  the  social,  literary  and  professional 
life  of  Chicag"o.  He  was  born  at  Exeter,  N,  H.,  January  4, 
1828;  prepared  for  colleg-e  at  Phillip's  Academy;  g-raduated 
from  Harvard  in  1847;  came  to  Chicago  in  1853.  He  was 
one  of  the  six  physicians  who  had  the  care  of  the  Confed- 
erate prisoners  at  Camp  Douglas  during-  the  war.  He  was 
consulting  physician  at  the  Hospital  for  Women  and  Chil- 
dren and  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  and  for  some  years  a 
trustee  of  the  Peck  Home  for  Incurables. 

January  26 — Friday.  Funeral  services  of  Mr.  David  W. 
Irwin,  at  his  late  residence,  conducted  by  Rev,  E,  C. 
Ray,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton.  Choir:  Mrs. 
John  A.  Farwell  (S.),  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier  (A.), 
Mr.  Georg-e  Hamlin  (T.)  and  Mr.  Edward  A.  Al- 
len (B.). 

Mr.  David  Wickham  Irwin  was  born  at  Sodus,  Wayne 
county,  N.  Y.,  December  14,  1830.  He  came  west  early 
in  the  "fifties"  to  start  in  business  in  Saginaw,  where  he 


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remained  about  a  year,  g"oing-  from  there  to  Canada  to  enter 
into  the  g^rain  business  on  his  own  account.  In  1854  he  re- 
moved to  Cbicag-o,  but  in  consequence  of  ill  health,  re- 
mained only  four  years,  and  then  returned  east.  He  came 
back  to  Chicago  in  1862,  and  established  the  firm  of  D.  W. 
Irwin  &  Co.  Mr.  Irwin  was  an  early  member  of  Calvary 
Presbyterian  Church,  and,  at  various  times,  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees  and  Board  of  Deacons  of  the  First 
Church.  He  was  a  trustee  of  the  Orphan  Asylum  and  a 
member  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Art  Insti- 
tute.    Mr.  Irwin  died  January  24,  1894. 

January  28— Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin,  org-anist. 
February  4 — Mr.  John  A.  West,  org-anist. 

March  4 — Dr.  Barrows  in  California.  Sermon  by  Rev. 
Herrick  Johnson,  D.D.,  in  which  he  referred  to  the  re- 
cent death  of  Rev.  Robert  W.  Patterson,  D.D.,  for 
thirty-two  years  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church. 

Rev.  Robert  Wilson  Patterson,  D.D.,  was  born  January 
21,  1814,  near  Maryville,  Blount  count}^  Tenn.,  and  died 
at  Evanston,  111.,  February  28,1894. 

March  5 — Monday.  Death  of  Mr.  O.  D.  Ranney,  an  old 
member  of  the  church  and  Session,  announced. 

March  25 — Easter  celebration : 

Org-an — In  Paradise, Dubois. 

Anthem — Awake,  Thou  that  Sleepest,  J.  Wallace  Goodrich. 
Carol — Chime  Softly,  Bells  of  Easter,  Frank  N.  Shepperd. 
Anthem — As  It  Began  to  Dawn,  -         Myles  B.  Foster. 

Oifertory — The  Angels'  Easter  Song,       -         -         Brewer, 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 
Anthem — Every  Flower  that  Blossoms,     -         -        Shelley. 
Organ — Festal  March,         ....        Claussmann. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Virginia  Evans, 
Miss  Jessica  Jenks,  Miss  Jeannette  F.  Russell  and 
Miss  Jennie  Grey,  sopranos;  Miss  Viola  Miksch,  Miss 
Rose  Bilton  and  Miss  Anna  Millar,  altos;  Mr.  P.  V.  R. 
Key  and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  H. 
Bushnell  and  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  basses. 

A  perfect  day,  church  handsomely  decorated  with  flowers 
and  a  large  audience  in  attendance. 

May  27— Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton  terminates  his  lone  and 


82  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

useful  work  at  Railroad  Chapel,  and  is  succeeded  by 
Rev.  S.  'M.  Johnson. 

Junk  15 — Death  of  Mr.  Asa  P.  Kelley  announced. 

July  22— Sermon  by  Rev.  L.  A.  Ostrander,  of  Lyons, 
N.  Y.,  a  member  of  this  church  in  1858. 

October  7 — Rev.  Dr.  Jessup,  of  Beirut,  Syria,  preached 
this  morning-,  and  spoke  of  his  forty  years  of  work  in 
that  country. 

Organ  Postlude — Funeral  March  and  Song-  Seraphic, 

Guilmant. 

November  20 — Union  Thanksgiving-  service  of  the  First 
and  Second  Presbyterian,  Immanuel  Baptist,  Ply- 
mouth Cong-regational,  Trinity  Methodist  and  Christ 
Reformed  Episcopal  churches,  held  in  the  First 
Church: 

Organ — Jerusalem,  the  Golden,  ...         Spark. 

Anthem — While  the  Earth  Remaineth,         -   John  A.  West. 
Offertory — Hope  in  the  Lord  (Largo),         -         -      Handel. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 
Organ— Finale,  Op.  17, Truette. 

Musical  service  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Clarence  Edd}^, 
assisted  by  the  choir  of  the  First  Church. 

December  30 — Christmas  music: 

Organ — Pastoral  in  G,  -         -      Louis  Adolphe  Coerne. 

Anthem — Christians,  Awake,      -         -         -  -       Barnby. 

Gloria  Patri — From  Jubilate  in  E  Flat,  -            Foote. 

Carol — Sweet  Christmas  Bells,             .         .  .        Stainer. 

Anthem — And  There  Were  Shepherds,       -  -            Foote. 

Offertory — The  Star  of  Peace,              -  Henry  Parker. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Anthem— Shout  the  Glad  Tidings,     -         -  Gilchrist. 

Organ — Religious  March,             ...  Guilmant. 

The  reg"ular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Eunice  St. 
Clair  Martens,  Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall  and  Miss  Paul- 
ine Stein,  sopranos;  Miss  Anna  H.  Clarke,  Miss 
Jennie  R.  Holmes  and  Miss  Rose  Bilton,  altos;  Mr. 
Frank  W.  Holder  and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr. 
Charles  H.  Bushnell  and  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  basses. 

1895. 

The  choir  for  the  coming-  year:  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.), 
Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root 
(T.)  and  Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen  (B.).  Mr.  Clarence 
Eddy,  organist  and  director. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  83 

January  20 — Dr.  Barrows  referred  this  morning-  to  the 
g"reat  mortality  among-  the  older  people  of  the  church, 
and  spoke  of  the  deaths  during-  the  past  week — Mrs. 
Hotchkin,  Mrs.  Lathrop,  Mrs.  McCalla  and  Mrs. 
Henry  D.  Penfield. 

February  17 — Dr.  V/illiam  R.  Harper,  president  of  the 
University  of  Chicago,  preached  this  morning.  Sub- 
ject of  his  sermon,  "  Why  should  I  study  the  Bible?" 

Rev.  Frank  W.  Gunsaulus,  D.D.,  of  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional Church,  preached  at  the  evening  service. 

March  10 — Morning-  service: 

Organ — Cantabile,  in  A  Flat,             ...  Rousseau. 

Anthem — Te  Deum,  in  D  Minor,       -         -         -  Foote. 

Response — God  So  Loved  the  World,        -         -  Stainer. 

Offertorj'— The  City  Beautiful,          -         -         -  Rodney. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Organ — Phantasie  from  Second  Sonata,          -  Wermann. 

The  choir  at  the  evening-  service  was  assisted  by  Miss 
Blanche  Ding-ley  (harp)  and  Mr.  Adolph  Rosenbecker 

(violin). 

March  31 — The  lastof  the  Sunday  evening- praise  services. 

April  14 — Easter  celebration.  A  beautiful  day  and  a  large 
attendance: 

Organ — Fiat  Lux, Dubois. 

Anthem — Why  Seek  Ye  the  Living  ^imong  the  Dead, 

S.  P.  Warren. 

An  Easter  Hymn— Aw^ake,  Thou  Y/intry  Earth,     -      Otis. 
Anthem — God  hath  Appointed  a  Day,       -         -  Tours. 

Harp,  Flute  and  Organ — Berceuse,  -         -       Oberthur. 

Anthem — Come,  See  the  Place  Where  Jesus  Lay, 

J.  A.  West. 

Offertory — Easter,      -..-..  Shelley. 

Miss  Gifford. 
Anthem — Praise  the  Lord,         -         -         -  Randegger. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,       ....  Handel. 

The  regular  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks, 
Miss  Alice  Etting-er  and  Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall,  so- 
pranos; Miss  Anna  H.  Clarke,  Miss  Rose  Bilton  and 
Miss  Jennie  R.  Holmes,  altos;  Mr.William  A.  Lamson 
and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkin- 
son and  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  basses;  Miss  Lee  Tim- 
mons,  harp;  Mr.  Edwin  S.  Timmons,  flute.  Mr. 
Clarence  Eddy,  org-anist  and  director. 

May  19 — Mr.  Eddy's  last  Sunday  as  organist  and  director 
of  music: 


84  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Organ — Fifth  Sonata,  First  Movement,  -      Guilmant. 

Anthem — Awake,  My  Soul,       -         .         -         .     Schnecker. 
Song-— Lead,  Kindly  Light,       -         -  F.  N.  Shepperd. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 
Offertory — Second  Movement  from  the  Fifth  Sonata, 

Guilmant. 
Organ  Finale — From  Fifth  Sonata,  -  Guilmant. 

Mr,  Clarence  Eddy  was  born  in  Greenfield,  Mass.,  in 
1851.  His  first  musical  studies  were  pursued  in  Green- 
field; afterward  in  Hartford,  with  Mr.  Dudley  Buck.  From 
1869  to  1871  he  resided  in  Montpelier,  Vt.,  as  organist  of 
Bethany  Church.  In  the  autumn  of  1871  he  went  to  Berlin, 
remaining-  there  several  years,  studying-  with  Haupt 
(organ)  and  Loeschhorn  (piano).  He  was  called  to  Chi- 
cago in  1875,  to  the  position  of  organist  at  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church,  remaining  there  two  years.  He  be- 
gan his  work  at  the  First  Presbyterian,  January  12,  1879. 

One  good  result  of  Mr.  Eddy's  work  in  Chicago  is 
the  class  of  younger  organists  whom  he  has  carefully 
trained,  and  who  are  now  filling  places  of  importance  in 
this  city  and  elsewhere.  Among  them  may  be  noted:  Mr. 
Frank  Taft,  concert  organist,  and  Mr.  Scott  Wheeler, 
Lafayette  Avenue  Presbyterian  Church,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.; 
Mr.  Arthur  Dunham,  Sinai  Temple;  Mr.  Charles  David 
Irwin,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Eddy  at  the  First  Presbyterian, 
Mr.  A.  F.  McCarrell,  Second  Presbyterian;  Miss  Helen 
D.  Wheeler,  Third  Presbyterian;  Miss  Carrie  T.  King- 
man, Fourth  Presbyterian;  Mr.  Harrison  M.  Wild,  Grace 
Episcopal;  Mr.  George  C.  Emerson,  Trinity  Episcopal; 
Mr.  Louis  P.  Hoyt,  St.  Mark's  Episcopal;  Mr.  Stuart  B. 
Sabin,  Central  Church;  Mr.  Francis  Silvey  Moore  and  Mr. 
John  A.  AVest,  Chicago;  Mr.  P.  C.  Lutkin,  Evanston,  111. 

June  2 — Another  magnificent  window,  a  gift  from  friends 
in  the  church  to  the  memory  of  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell, 
D.D.,  displayed  this  morning;  built  by  the  Louis  Tiff- 
any Co.,  of  New  York.  Subject  of  the  picture,  "  Paul 
preaching  to  the  Athenians." 

June  28 — Friday  afternoon.  E^uneral  services  of  Mr. 
George  Francis  Bissell,  held  at  the  church,  conducted 
by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  with  the  assistance 
of  members  of  the  choir. 


MR.  clarencf:  eddy. 


F/RS T  PRESS  Y TERIAN  CHUR CM.  85 

Mr.  Bissell  was  born  June  23,  1827,  at  Manchester, 
Conn.  He  went  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  in  1857;  came  to  Chi- 
cag-o  in  1861  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Hartford  Fire 
Insurance  Co.  He  was  appointed  western  manag"er  of 
the  company  in  1866,  retaining-  this  position  until  his  death. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bissell  were  received  into  the  membership 
of  the  church  January  4,  1862.  Mr.  Bissell  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Session  for  many  years,  and  at  the  time  of  his 
death  was  chairman  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  Music. 

September  17 — Tuesday  afternoon.  Funeral  services  of 
Mr.  James  Otis,  from  his  late  residence,  1722  Michi- 
g-an  Avenue,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows, 
D.D.,  and  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton.  Choir:  Mrs. 
John  A.  Farwell  (S.),  Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson  (A.), 
Mr.  Robert  T.  Howard  (T.)  and  Mr.  John  M.  Hub- 
bard (B.). 

Mr.  James  Otis  was  born  April  1,  1818,  in  Montville, 
Conn.,  a  village  not  far  from  New  London.  In  1823  his 
parents  removed  to  Berlin,  Erie  County,  Ohio.  He  came 
to  Chicago  in  1856.  He  was  chairman  of  the  Building  Com- 
mittee of  the  present  edifice  (1871-73)  and  a  member  of 
the  Session  until  1884.  Mr.  Otis  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Interior,  and  treasurer  of  the  Presbyterian  Theo- 
logical Seminary  of  the  Northwest  from  1870  to  1884. 
Rev.  Marcus  Whitman,  a  missionary  who  was  largely  in- 
strumental in  saving  Oregon  to  the  United  States,  was  a  life- 
long friend  of  Mr.  Otis.  When  Mr.  Whitman  was  on  his 
way  to  Washington  in  1834,  to  see  Daniel  Webster  and  the 
President,  Mr.  Otis  traveled  with  him  from  Cleveland  to 
Buffalo,  and  in  after  life  often  related  the  history  of  the 
Oregon  trouble,  as  told  to  him  by  Mr.  V/hitman. 

Rev.  Edward  Anderson,  second  pastor  of  Calvary 
Presbyterian  Church  (1860-61),  who  was  present  at  the 
funeral,  writes  of  his  church  work  in  Chicago,  and  his 
recollections  of  Mr.  Otis  : 

My  acquaintance  with  your  father  began  in  1859,  v.'hen 
he  came  to  invite  me  from  St.  Joseph,  Mich.,  to  the  pastor- 
ate of  Calvary  Church,  and  my  earliest  impression  of  him 


86  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

is  through  his  enthusiastic  devotion  to  that  enterprise, 
which  was  then  in  its  infancy.  He  was  surrounded  by  a 
goodly  array  of  men:  Bennett  B.  Chambers,  Joseph  Meeker, 
Willard  F.  Myrick,  Daniel  A.  Jones,  George  Gilbert,  all  of 
whom  are  gone  before  him,  and  Joseph  N.  Barker,  who 
survives  him,  and  who  held  the  superintendency  of  the 
Sunday  School  for  many  years. 

I  shall  never  forget  the  day,  when,  rising  in  my  pul- 
pit at  St.  Joseph,  I  saw  two  strangers  present  who  had  a 
different  tone  from  my  usual  parishioners.  St.  Joseph 
was  then  a  small  village,  with  the  peach  interest  just 
started;  we  had  built  the  church  with  great  effort.  I  think 
it  was  Mr.  Chambers  who  accompanied  your  father  to  St. 
Joseph,  but  I  am  not  sure.  After  service  your  father 
walked  home  with  me,  and  told  me  with  the  deepest  inter- 
est, of  the  new  work  that  had  been  started  on  Indiana 
Avenue,  just  beyond  Ringgold  Place  (now  Twenty-sec- 
ond Street),  as  he  urged  me  to  consider  the  call  to  become 
pastor  of  the  church  for  whose  future  he  had  such  a  pro- 
phetic prescience. 

It  is  interesting  to  remember  that  at  that  time  (1860) 
all  beyond  my  house,  which  was  on  Michigan  Avenue,  a 
few  blocks  south  of  Singgold  Place,  was  given  up  to 
market  gardening,  and  that  Mr.  Myrick  had  the  first  stock 
yards  on  Cottage  Grove  Avenue  at  about  Thirtieth  Street. 
Your  father  used  to  prophesy  the  greatness  that  he  lived 
to  see  of  this  South  Side.  But  I  could  not  credit  him  in 
what  seemed  to  me  wild  hopes.  I  am  now  writing  at  Fifty- 
fifth  Street,  and  seem  yet  to  be  in  the  heart  of  the  city.  I 
do  not  know  where  in  the  present  city  was  the  Reform 
School,  but  we  rode  through  wild  roads  then  to  reach  it, 
and  all  about  it  was  farms  with  little  promise  of  streets, 
still  less  of  a  great  city. 

The  month  of  December  witnessed  the  retirement,  by 
reason  of  the  infirmities  of  old  age,  of  Mr.  John  Ratcliffe 
Dyson,  the  faithful  sexton  of  this  church,  who  began  his 
duties  April  1, 1863,  during  the  ministry  of  Dr.  Humphrey. 
Mr.  Dyson  was  born  January  12, 1818,  in  Manchester,  Eng- 
land, and  came  to  Chicago  in  1845.  He  remained  here  a  few 
years  and  then  went  to  Milwaukee,  where  he  was  sexton 
of  Plymouth  Congregational  Church  during  the  time  Dr. 
Humphrey  was  its  pastor.  Mr.  Dyson  returned  to  Chi- 
cago to  be  sexton  of  the  First  Church,  at  the  suggestion  of 
Dr.  Humphrey. 


FIRS  T  PRESB  YTERIA N  CHUR  CH.  87 

October  8 — Funeral  services  of  Mrs.  Flora  Fisher,  con- 
ducted at  her  late  residence,  2419  Michigan  Avenue, 
by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.  Mrs.  Fisher  was 
born  in  1799,  and  had  been  a  member  of  the  First 
Church  for  more  than  forty  years.  In  speaking-  of 
her  g-reat  age,  Dr.  Barrows  said  she  might  have  seen 
all  of  the  presidents  of  the  United  States,  save  one, 
George  Washington. 

November  16 — Saturday.     Funeral  services  of  Mr.  John 

B.  Drake,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D., 
with  the  assistance  of  the  members  of  the  church 
choir. 

Mr.  John  Burroughs  Drake  was  born  in  Lebanon, 
Warren  county,  Ohio,  January  17,  1824.  In  his  address  at 
the  funeral,  Dr.  Barrows  said: 

This  man,  who  has  been  taken  from  us,  filled  a  large 
place  in  the  life  of  this  community  and  of  the  nation.  He 
was  honored  throughout  the  country,  and  was  well  known 
in  other  lands.  He  was  one  of  the  men  who  make  the 
strength  of  a  community  like  ours. 

November  24 — Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  tendered  his 
resignation  as  pastor  of  the  church. 

December  19 — Mr.  Ira  Bassett,  the  veteran  organ  builder, 
dead.  The  church  organ  had  been  under  his  care 
since  1873. 

December  29— Christmas  service: 

Organ— Festal  Song-,           ....  John  E.  West. 

Anthem — Sing-  and  Rejoice,       -         -         -  -          Barnb}-. 

Carol— The  Anthem  of  Peace,             -         -  -          Barnby. 

Anthem — There  Were  Shepherds,     -         -  -         -      Gaul. 

Offertory — Ang-els'  Christmas  Song-,         -  -           Brewer. 

Miss  Gifford. 

Christmas  Sermon,      -         -      Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 

Christmas  Hymn — The  Syrian  Shepherds,  -         -       Otis. 

Organ— Coronation  March,        .         -         -  .       Svendson. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks» 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Beidler  and  Miss  Hotchkin,  sopranos; 
Miss  Anna  H.  Clark  and  Miss  Rose  Bilton,  altos;  Mr. 

C.  W.  Crankshaw,  tenor;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkinson 
and  Mr.  Frank  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  basses.  Organist, 
Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin. 

1896. 

The  choir  for  the  coming  year:  Miss  Electa  Gifford  (S.), 
Mrs.  Oscar  Remmer   (A.),  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  (T.) 


88  A  HISTORY  OF   THE 

and  Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen  (B.).     Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin, 
organist. 

January  25 — Funeral  services  of  Mr.  Charles  Mather  Hen- 
derson, at  his  late  residence,  conducted  by  Rev.  John 
H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  and  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton, 
assisted  by  members  of  the  choir. 

Mr.  Henderson  was  born  in  New  Hartford,  Conn., 
March  21,  1834;  came  to  Chicago  in  1854.  He  was  for 
many  years  president  of  the  Young  People's  Missionary 
Association  of  this  church,  and  for-some  time  a  member  of 
the  Committee  on  Music. 

February  9 — Sunday  evening.  A  great  meeting  held  in 
Central  Music  Hall,  a  farewell  tribute  from  the  people 
of  Chicago  to  Dr.  Barrows.  Addresses  by  Dr.  Henson, 
Bishop  Fallows,  Rev.  Frank  Bristol  and  Mr.  H.  N. 
Higinbotham, 

February  12 — Wednesday  evening.  A  service  in  memory 
of  Mr.  Charles  M.  Henderson.  Addresses  by  Rev. 
John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton  and 
Rev.  D.  A.  McWilliams.  Members  of  the  choir  were 
present  and  took  part  in  the  service. 

February  14 — Friday  evening.  A  farewell  reception  to 
the  pastor  and  his  wife  at  the  church.  Dr.  Barrows 
read  an  address  in  which  he  set  forth  some  of  the 
duties  and  responsibilities  in  the  active  life  of  a  city 
pastor.  Then  followed  remarks  by  Bishop  Cheney,  F. 
L.  Ensign,  Rev.  Dr.  McClure,  of  Lake  Forest,  and 
Rev.  Mr.  Robinson,  of  Englewood. 

February  16 — Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D.,  preached  his 
last  sermon  this  morning,  from  the  text,  "Faith,  hope 
and  charity,  of  these  the  greatest  is  charity." 

February  23 — Rev.  E.  C.  Ray,  D.D.,  in  the  pulpit.     Sermon 

from  n  Timothy,  i:  11:  "  Whereunto  I  am  appointed  a 

preacher  and  an  apostle  and  a  teacher  of  the  Gentiles." 
April  5 — Easter  service: 

Organ — Festival  Prelude,         -----        Buck. 

Anthem — Break  Forth  into  Joy,       -         -         -         -  Barnby. 

Anthem — Very  Early  in  the  Morning,  Horatio  W.  Parker. 

Anthem — O  Lamb  of  God,        -         -         -         -  Gounod. 

Offertory — I  Waited  for  the  Lord,  -  Mendelssohn. 

Miss  Gifford,  Mrs.  Remmer  and  Chorus. 

Easter  Sermon— At  the  Grave  in  the  Garden, 

Rev.  E.  C.  Ray,  D.D. 

Easter  Hymn — With  Hands  Upraised  to  Bless,     -         Otis. 

Organ — Entree  du  Cortege,     -         -         -         -  Dubois. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  89 

The  church  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks, 
Mrs.  A.  W.  Beidler  and  Miss  Marguerite  Easter, 
sopranos;  Miss  Rose  Bilton,  Miss  Lucinda  B.  Lee 
and  Miss  Myra  Miles,  altos;  Mr.  E.  F.  Wait  and  Mr. 
Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.Atkinson  and 
Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  basses.  Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin, 
organist. 

April  11 — Funeral  services  of  Mrs.  Charles  Gilman 
Smith. 

May  10 — Sermon  by  Dr.  Ray  from  the  121st  Psalm,  first 
verse:  "I  will  lift  mine  eyes  unto  the  hills." 

May  31 — Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  and  Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin, 
having  resigned,  are  succeeded  by  Mr.  William  S.  Hine 
(T.)  and  Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore  (O.).  The  Society 
will  always  be  under  obligations  to  Mr.  Irwin  for  his 
work  on  the  Music  Committee  and  the  interest  he  has 
taken  in  the  choir.  The  hydraulic  motor  attachment 
to  the  organ  was  secured  principally  through  his 
efforts,  and  the  larger  part  of  the  cost  was  borne  by  him. 

June  22 — Monday  morning.  Funeral  services  of  Mrs. 
Willard  F.  Myrick,  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the 
church,  were  held  at  her  late  residence,  2967  Vernon 
Avenue,  and  conducted  by  Rev.  E.  C.  Ray,  D.D.  Mrs. 
Myrick  was  eighty  years  of  age.  At  the  conclusion  of 
Dr.  Ray's  remarks,  Mr.  Fernando  Jones,  one  of  the 
pallbearers,  arose  and  begged  to  add  his  testimony 
regarding  Mrs.  Myrick  (whom  he  had  known  for  more 
than  fifty  years)  and  her  life  of  benevolence  and  char- 
ity; that  her  great  mission  in  this  world  was  to  feed 
the  hungry  and  clothe  the  naked.  Mr.  Jones  spoke  of 
Mrs.  Myrick's  devotion  to  the  soldiers  at  Camp 
Douglas  and  her  efforts  to  relieve  the  sufferings  of 
the  poor  Confederate  prisoners  who  were  confined 
there  during  the  war. 

Mr.  Willard  Francklin  Myrick  died  January  27,  1889, 
aged  eighty  years.  His  home  on  Vernon  Avenue,  ever  since 
it  was  built  in  1854,  has  been  a  landmark  in  that  part  of  our 
city,  well  known  for  its  hospitalities  and  abounding  chari- 
ties. Mr.  Myrick  came  to  Chicago  in  October,  1836,  from 
the  shores  of  Lake  Champlain, where  he  was  born  July  11, 
1809.  Soon  after  his  arrival  in  Chicago,  he  bought  seventy 
acres  on  the  lake  between  the  present  Twenty-sixth  and 
Thirty-first    Streets.     From   1839    to   1854  he    kept   the 


90  ^  HISTORY  OF   THE 

Myrick  House,  a  noted  stopping-  place  for  drovers  and 
cattle  men.  There  the  first  stock  yards  were  org-anized. 
The  old  Myrick  House  was  the  immediate  predecessor  of 
the  Transit  House. 

September  27 — Sermon  by  Dr.  Ray  on  the  benefit  of  a  col- 
legiate education. 

November  8 — Festival  service: 

Org-an — Offertoire  in  A,  -         Georges  MacMaster. 

Anthem — Praise  God  in  His  Holiness,         -         -         Tours. 
Anthem— Hark!  Hark!  My  Soul,  -         -         -      Shelley. 

Song — The  Star  of  Eternitj^         ....  Lane. 

Miss  Gifford. 

Offertory — Andante  in  D, Hollins. 

Mr.  Clarence  Eddy. 
(Organist  of  the  church  from  1879  to  1895.) 
Sermon — The  Heavenly  Vision,     Prof.  J.  Ross  Stevenson. 
Anthem — Let  Us  Now  Fear  the  Lord  our  God, 

John  E.  West. 

Organ — Finale  to  Fifth  Sonata,     -        -        -         Guilmant. 
Mr.  Clarence  Eddy. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks, 
Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall  and  Mrs.  A.  W.  Beidler, 
sopranos;  Mrs.  Cecilia  Ryan,  Miss  Rose  Bilton  and 
Miss  Lucinda  B.  Lee,  altos;  Mr.  I.  J.  Shuart  and  Mr. 
Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkinson  and 
Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  basses.  Org-anist,  Mr. 
Francis  S.  Moore. 

This  was  Miss  Gifford's  last  service  in  the  church. 
She  went  to  Paris,  where  she  spent  two  years  in  study; 
g-oing-  from  there  in  1898  to  the  Royal  Opera  in  Amster- 
dam, Holland,  where  she  is  still  eng-ag^ed. 

November  29 — 

Offertory — My  Redeemer  and  My  Lord,       -         -         Buck. 
Miss  Helen  E.  Aikman. 

December  27 — Christmas  celebration: 

Organ — Overture  to  the    Messiah,         -         -         -     Handel. 
Anthem— With  All  Thy  Hosts,       -         -  John  E.  West. 

Festival— Te  Deum  in  E  Flat,  No.  7,  -         -         Buck. 

Carol — It  Came  upon  the  Midnight  Clear,     -  Sullivan. 

Offertory — Christmas  Song,  ....       Adam. 

Sermon — The  Indebtedness  of  the  World  to  Christian- 
ity,    ....         Rev.  Samuel  Ives  Curtis,  D.D. 
Anthem — Sing,  O  Daughter  of  Zion,     -         -  Gadsby. 

Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,  ....     Handel. 


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FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  91 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks, 
Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall  and  Mrs.  A.  W.  Beidler, 
sopranos;  Miss  Ethel  B.  Carpenter,  Miss  Rose  Bilton 
and  Miss  Lucinda  B.  Lee,  altos;  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root 
and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkin- 
son and  Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  basses.  Organist, 
Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore. 

1897. 

The  choir  for  the  coming-  year:  Miss  L.  May  Gurler 
(S.)  until  May  1,  1897,  when  she  was  succeeded 
by  Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble,  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier 
(A. ),  Mr.  William  S.Hine  (T.)and  Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen 
(B. ).     Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore,  organist. 

February  17 — Funeral  services  of  Miss  Pauline  Louise 
Otis,  conducted  by  Rev.  S.  J.  McPherson,  D.D.,  and 
Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton.  A  fev/  familiar  hymns  were 
sung  by  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

February  28 — Mr.  Arthur  Dunham,  organist,  in  the  ab- 
sence of  Mr.  Moore: 

Organ — Fantasia  in  E  Flat,      -         -         -  Saint-Saens. 

Offertory — The  King  of  Love  My  Shepherd  Is,         Gounod. 

Miss  Gurler. 
Organ — Prelude  and  Fugue  in  B  Minor,  -         -      Bach. 

Prof.  M.  Bross  Thomas,  of  Lake  Forest  University,  occu- 
pied the  pulpit  this  morning. 

April  11 — Announcement  was  made  from  the  pulpit,  of  the 
death  of  Mr.  Horace  G,  Bird,  organist  of  this  church 
in  1868,  when  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  began  his 
pastorate.     Mr.  Bird  died  in  this  city  April  7  last. 

Aprll  18 — Easter  celebration: 

Organ  Prelude — Prit're  a  Notre  Dame,    -         -  Boellmann. 

Anthem — Awake,  Glad  Soul,  Awake,      -         -  Foster. 

Te  Deum  in  B  Minor, -      Buck. 

Easter  Song — Every  Flower  that  Blossoms,    -  Shelley. 

Offertory — Easter  Morning, Otis. 

Organ    Postlude  —  Introduction,    Choral    and  Minuet 

Gothique,       -         - Boellmann. 

The  regular  choir  wa.s  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks, 
Miss  Grace  E.  Dudley  and  Miss  Lillian  E.  Randall, 
sopranos;  Miss  Ethel  B.  Carpenter,  Miss  Daisy  J. 
Hubbard  and  Miss  Clarissa  Smith,  altos;  Mr.  Philo  A. 
Otis  and  Mr.   F.   J.    Wessels,   tenors;    Mr.    Charles 


92  A  HISTORY  OF   THE 

T.   Atkinson  and   Mr.   F.   H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,   basses. 
Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore,  organist. 

May  9— 

Offertory— If  with  All  Your  Hearts,         -         Mendelssohn. 
Mr.  William  S.  Hine. 

May  16 — 

Anthem — God  Is  Our  Refuge,  ....     Foote. 

May  22 — Saturday  morning-.  Funeral  services  of  Mr. 
Matthew  Laflin,  one  of  the  oldest  members  of  the 
congregation,  at  his  late  residence,  conducted  by  Prof. 
Franklin  W.  Fisk,  D.D.  A  few  familiar  hymns  were 
sung  by  Mrs.  Genevieve  Clark  Wilson  and  Mrs. 
Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Mr.  Laflin  was  born  in  Southwick,  Mass.,  December 
16,  1803;  came  to  Chicago  in  1837.  He  brought  his  family 
to  Chicago  the  following  year,  and  during  the  winter  of 
1838-39  they  occupied  quarters  in  Fort  Dearborn.  Mrs. 
Laflin  was  received  into  the  membership  of  the  church 
March  23,  1839.  The  present  home  of  the  Chicago  Acad- 
emy of  Sciences  in  Lincoln  Park  was  a  gift  from  Mr.  Laflin. 
May  30 — Decoration  day: 

Org-an — Allegretto  in  D  Minor,  ....     Foote. 

Hymn— The  Son  of  God  Goes  Forth  to  War,  -        Sullivan. 
Anthem — The  Strain  Upraise,  ....      Buck. 

American  Hymn — Speed  Our  Republic,   O  Father  on 

Hig-h, Keller. 

National  Song — Song  of  a  Thousand  Years,  -         -    Work. 
Sermon — America's   Place   in  the  Evangelizing  of  the 

World,  ...      Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D. 

National  Anthem — The  Star  Spangled  Banner, 
Organ — The  Star  Spangled  Banner,        ...      Buck. 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks  and 
Miss  Grace  E.  Dudley,  sopranos;  Miss  Laura  Fleming 
and  Miss  Daisy  J.  Hubbard,  altos;  Mr.  Frank  K.  Root 
and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkin- 
son, Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Arthur  T.  Scott, 
basses.     Organist,  Mr.  Francis  S.i Moore. 

June  13 — Pulpit  occupied  by  Prof.  M.  Bross  Thomas,  of 
Lake  Forest. 

June  20 — Sunday  afternoon.  Funeral  services  of  Mr. 
George  W.  Darrow,  conducted  by  Rev.  John  H.  Bar- 
rows, D.D.,  with  the  assistance  of  members  of  the  choir. 

June  30 — Wednesday  evening.  A  formal  call  was  extended 
by  the  society  to  Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,  of  the 


MR.    FRANCIS  SILVEV  MOORE. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  93 

Immanuel  Presbyteria,n  Church  of  Los  Ang-eles,  Cal,, 
to  become  the  pastor  of  this  church. 

July  7 — Wednesday  evening-.  A  letter  was  read  from  Rev. 
W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,  accepting-  the  call  from  this 
church  to  become  its  pastor,  and  stating  that  he  would 
beg-in  his  labors  October  1,  1897. 

August  1 — Pulpit  occupied  this  morning-  by  Rev.  W.  B. 
Jenning-s,  D.D.,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 

Death  announced  of  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee,  a  former  superin- 
tendent of  the  Sunday  School  at  Railroad  Chapel,  leader 
of  the  music  at  its  evening  services  and  a  reliable  mem- 
ber of  the  church  choir  on  all  festival  occasions.  Mr. 
Lee  had  been  away  from  Chicago  for  a  year  or  more  in 
consequence  of  ill  health.  He  died  at  Ypsilanti,  Mich., 
Friday  last,  July  30. 

August  22 — 

Offertory — The  Palm  Branches,        -         -         .         -  Faure. 
Mr.  Frank  King  Clark. 

September  26 — Memorial  services  for  Mr.  Charles  S.  Lee 
were  held  at  the  South  Side  Tabernacle  (formerly 
Railroad  Chapel)  this  Sunday  evening,  conducted  by 
Rev.  Charles  M.  Morton  and  Rev.  D.  A.  McWilliams. 

October  3 — Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,  preached  his 
first  sermon  in  this  church  this  morning  from  the  text 
Romans  i:  15:  "So  as  much  as  in  me  is  I  am  ready  to 
preach  the  Gospel  to  you  that  are  at  Rome  also."  The 
musical  order  of  service  was  as  follows: 

Organ  Prelude — Adagio  from  Fifth  Sonata,  -  Merkel. 

Anthem — The  Strain  Upraise,           -         -  -  .      Buck. 

Anthem — O  Lamb  of  God,          -         -         .  .  Gounod. 

Off ertor}'— Hark!  Hark!  My  Soul,    -         -  -  Shelley. 

Anthem — Prepare  Ye  the  Way  of  the  Lord,  -  Garrett. 

Organ  Postlude — Marche  Religieuse,      -  -  Guilmant. 

The  church  quartette  was  assisted  by  Miss  Jessica  Jenks 
and  Miss  Eleanor  M.  Goodman,  sopranos:  Miss  Daisy 
J.  Hubbard  and  Miss  Esther  M.  Plumb,  altos;  Mr. 
Frank  K.  Root  and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr.  F. 
H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Arthur  T.  Scott,  basses.  Or- 
ganist, Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore. 

October  20 — Wednesday  evening.  Installation  services  of 
Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.  The  following  members 
of  the  Chicago  Presbytery  took  part  in  the  services: 
Rev.  Charles  S.  Hoyt,  Rev.  John  H.   Barrov/s,  D.D., 


94  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Kev.  Willis  G.  Craig-,  D.D.,  Rev.  Edward  C.  Ray,  D.D., 
Rev.  C.  A.  Lippincott  and  Rev.  D.  A.  McWilliams: 

Organ — Evening  Song,  .....        Bossi. 

Hymn— The  Son  of  God  Goes  Forth  to  War, 

S.  B.  Whitney. 

Anthem — Sing  unto  the  Lord,  ...  Sydenham. 
Anthem — O  Lamb  of  God,       ....  Gounod. 

Anthem — Prepare  Ye  the  Way  of  the  Lord,  -  Garrett. 
Organ — Hallelujah  Chorus,  ....     Handel. 

The  church  quartette  w^as  assisted  by  Miss  Grace  Chap- 
pell,  Miss  Jessica  Jenks,  Miss  E.  M.  Goodman  and  Miss 
Grace  E.  Dudley,  sopranos;  Miss  Laura  Fleming-, 
Miss  Mertie  M.  White  and  Miss  Louise  Blish,  altos; 
Mr.  Frank  K.  Root  and  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis,  tenors;  Mr. 
F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  and  Mr.  Arthur  T.  Scott,  basses. 
Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore,  org-anist. 

December  26 — Christmas  celebration: 

Prelude — The  Pastoral  Symphony,      -         -         -  Bach. 

Violin,  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Chorale — Break  Forth,  O  Beauteous,  Heavenly  Light,  Bach. 

(From  the  Christmas  Oratorio.) 

Anthem — And  There  Were  Sheplierds,         -         -  Foote. 

Christmas  Song — Sweetly  through  the  Night,     -     Shelley. 

Violin  and  Organ  Accompaniment. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Violin  Solo — Air, Bach. 

Violoncello  Solo— Berceuse,  -----  Godard. 
Offertor3' — I  Waited  for  the  Lord,  -  -  Mendelssohn. 
Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble,  Miss  L.  May  Gurler  and  Chorus. 
Anthem — O  Come,  Redeemer  of  Mankind,     John  E.  West. 

Accompaniment  for  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Organ — And  the  Glory  of  the  Lord,     -         -         -      Handel. 

The  reg-ular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  L.  May  Gurler, 
Miss  E.  M.  Goodman  and  Miss  Jessica  Jenks,  sopranos; 
Miss  Laura  Fleming-,  Miss  Anna  Millar  and  Miss 
Henrietta  Millar,  altos;  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr. 
Frederick  J.  Wessels,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkin- 
son and  Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  basses;  Mr.  Leopold 
Kramer,  violin;  Mr.  Bruno  Steindel,  violoncello.  Mr. 
Francis  S.  Moore,  org-anist. 

Dr.  Chichester  preached  a  Christmas  sermon  from  Micah 
v:  2:  "But  thou,  Bethlehem,  Ephratah,  thoug-h  thou 
be  little  among-  the  thousands  of  Judah,  yet  out  of  thee 
shall  He  come  forth  unto  me  that  is  to  be  ruler  in 
Israel;  whose  g-oing-s  forth  have  been  from  old,  from 
everlasting-." 

1898. 

The  choir  for  the  ensuing-  year:     Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble 


MRS.    CLARA    G.    TRIMBLE. 


FIRS  T  PRESS  YTERIAN  CHUR  CH.  95 

(S.),  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  William  S. 
Hine  (T.),  Mr.    Edward  A.  Allen  (B.).     Mr.  Francis 
S.  Moore,  org-anist. 
January  30 — 

Organ — Pastorale  in  F,     -         -         -         -         -  Lucas. 

Anthem — Deus  Misereatur  in  E,       -      Horatio  W.  Parker. 
Response — Lead,  Kindlj'  Light,        -         -         -  Stainer. 

Offertory— The  Lord  Is  My  Light,  -         -         -      Buck. 

Mrs.  Trimlble  and  Mr.  Hine. 
Organ — Prelude  and  Fugue  in  E  Minor,         -         -      Bach. 

February  20 — Dr.  Chichester's  sermon  was  on  the  life  and 

influence  of  Georg-e  Washing-ton. 
March  30 — Wednesday  afternoon.     Funeral  services  of 
Mr.  Henry  Botsford,  conducted  by  Rev.  W.  J.  Chiches- 
ter, D.D.     Mrs.  Trimble  and  Miss  Evans  sang-  a  few 
familiar  hymns. 
April  10 — Easter  Sunday.     Festival  music: 

Organ — Pastorale  in  E, Lemare. 

Anthem — Happy  and  Blest  Are  They,      -         Mendelssohn. 

(From  St.  Paul.) 
Anthem — As  It  Began  to  Dawn,         .         -         -         Vincent. 
Anthem — Awake,  Glad  Soul,  Awake,       -         -  Foster. 

Violoncello  Solo — Adagio,  ...         -  Mozart. 

Offertory — Easter  Hymn,  .         .         -         .  Roeder. 

Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble. 
With  Accompaniment  for  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Anthem— This  is  the  Day  the  Lord  hath  Made,      -       Otis. 

With  Accompaniment  for  Violoncello  and  Org-an. 
Organ — Grand  Chorus  in  D,     -         -         -         -  Holiins. 

The  reg-ular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  E.  M.  Goodman, 
Miss  Edith  Goodwin,  Miss  Hortense  Mallory  and  Miss 
Ruth  Wilson,  sopranos;  Miss  Bessie  Campbell,  Miss 
Florence  Campbell  and  Miss  Daisy  J.  Hubbard,  altos; 
Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  F.  J.  Wessels,  tenors;  Mr. 
Charles  T.  Atkinson  and  Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr., 
basses;  Mr.  Bruno  Steindel,  violoncello.  Mr.  Francis 
S.  Moore,  org-anist. 

Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,  delivered  an  Easter  sermon 
from  Mark  xvi:  2:  "And  very  early  in  the  morning-, 
the  first  day  of  the  week,  they  came  unto  the  sepulcher 
at  the  rising-  of  the  sun." 

May  1— Mr.  William  S.  Hine  and  Mr.  Edward  A.  Allen, 
having-  resigned,  are  succeeded  by  Mr.  Glenn  Hall  (T.) 
and  Mr.  Alfred  Williams  (B.). 

May  22— 

Offertory— My  Song  shall  Be  Alway  Thy  Mercy, 

-"       -  ' Mendelssohn. 

(From  the  Hymn  of  Praise.) 
Mrs.  Trimble  and  Mr.  Hall. 


96  A  HISTORY  OF   THE 

Dr.  Chichester  spoke  this  morning-  on  the  life  and  work  of 
Mr.  Gladstone,  taking  his  text  from  Paul's  sermon  to 
the  people  at  Antioch:  "For  David,  after  he  had  served 
his  ovi^n  g-eneration,  by  the  will  of  God,  fell  on  sleep." 
(Acts  xiii:  36.) 

May  28 — The  pastor's  sermon  was  on  the  present  war 
with  Spain.  Text:  "Out  of  the  eater  came  forth  meat, 
and  out  of  the  strong-  came  forth  sweetness. "  (Judges 
xiv:  14.) 

June  19 — 

Anthem — The  Righteous  shall  Flourish,  -  Calkin. 

The  pastor's  sermon  was  founded  on  the  exclamation  of 
Elijah,  "It  is  enough.  Lord,  now  take  away  my  life," 
uttered  by  the  prophet  when  he  went  into  the  wilder- 
ness, weary,  alone,  broken  in  body  and  spirit,  ready 
to  die. 

JimE  26 — The  sermon  was  on  that  passage  of  St.  Paul's 
letter  to  the  Ephesians,  in  which  the  apostle  makes  use 
of  some  military  expressions  (chapter  vi:  11-17):  "Put 
on  the  whole  armor  of  God — above  all,  taking  the 
shield  of  faith  and  the  helmet  of  salvation." 

July  17 — Mr.  Charles  D.  Irwin,  organist: 

Org-an — Andante  con  Varia,  Op.  82,        -         -  Calkin. 

Offertory — Love  Divine,  All  Love  Excelling,  Stainer. 

Mrs.  Trimble  and  Mr.  James  Swift. 
Organ — Processional  March,     -         -         -      S.  B.  Whitney. 

Dr.  Chichester  away  on  his  vacation.  Sermon  by  Rev. 
Sylvester  Scovel,  D.D.,  of  Wooster,  Ohio,  on  "The 
martyr  spirit."  Text  from  Acts,  vii:  59,  60:  "And 
they  stoned  Stephen.  .  .  .  Lord  Jesus,  receive  my 
spirit.     .     .     .     Lay  not  this  sin  to  their  charge." 

July  31 — Rev.  L.  F.  Laverty,  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  occu- 
pied the  pulpit.  The  speaker  said  that  the  present 
war  with  Spain  would  call  the  attention  of  the  whole 
woi-ld  to  the  power  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race.  He  fur- 
nished some  statistics  to  support  this  statement:  in 
the  year  1700  the  Anglo-Saxon  people  number^xl  6,000,- 
000;  in  1800,  20,000,000;  in  1900  there  will  be  115,000,000. 

August  28 — 

Offertory — Be  Thou  Faithful  unto  Death,         Mendelssohn. 

(St.  Paul.) 

Mr.  James  Swift. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  John  C.  Watt,  D.D.,  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  Columbus,  Ohio. 


MR.  GLENN  HALL. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  97 

Septembkr  11— Sermon  by  Rev.  S.  C.  Palmer,  D.D.,  of  St. 
Louis.  Text,  II  Kings  iv:  2:  "What  shall  I  do  for 
thee?    What  hast  thou  in  the  house?  " 

September  18 — Dr.  Chichester,  having-  returned  from  his 
vacation,  was  in  the  pulpit  to-day.  His  sermon  was  on 
the  statement  of  the  apostle  Paul  that,  "God  overlooked 
those  times  of  ignorance,"  referring  to  the  cruelties 
and  immoralities  of  the  Old  Testament  worthies. 

September  25 — 

Offertory— If  with  All  Your  Hearts,  -         Mendelssohn. 

Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

Dr.  Chichester  had  for  his  text  the  eighth  verse  of  the 
thirteenth  chapter  of  Romans:  "Owe  no  man  any- 
thing." 

October  9. 

Organ  Prelude — Alleg-retto  in  D  Minor,  -  -  Foote. 
Org-an  Postlude — Festival  March  in    F,        -         -         Foote. 

The  subject  of  the  pastor's  discourse  this  morning  is 
found  in  the  apostle  Paul's  letter  to  the  Galatians 
(iv :  18):  "But  it  is  good  to  be  zealously  affected 
always  in  a  good  thing." 

October  23 — One  of  the  choir  selections  was  Mr.  Arthur 
Foote's  setting  of  the  poem  by  Mrs.  Harriet  Beecher 
Stowe,  "Still,  Still  with  Thee." 

Dr.  Chichester  spoke  of  the  influence  of  heredity,  environ- 
ment and  individual  responsibility  in  molding  man's 
character.  The  prophet  Ezekielsays:  "  What  mean 
ye,  that  ye  use  this  proverb  concerning  the  land  of  Is- 
rael, saying.  The  fathers  have  eaten  sour  grapes,  and 
the  children's  teeth  are  set  on  edge  ?  " 

"  Behold,  all  souls  are  mine  ;  as  the  soul  of  the  father,  so 
also  the  soul  of  the  son  is  mine  ;  the  soul  that  sinneth, 
it  shall  die"  (xviii:  2,  4). 

November  13. 

Anthem — Te  Deum  in  B  Minor,  -  -  -  -  Buck. 
Response— Let  Not  Your  Heart  be  Troubled,  Trembath. 
Offertory— The  Lord  Is  My  Light  and  My  Salvation, 

Buck. 

Mrs.  Dreier  and  Mr.  Williams. 

The  pastor  spoke  on  the  welfare  of  young  men ;  how  to 
interest  them  in  church  work.  It  is  estimated  that 
there  are  8,000,000  young  men  in  this  country  to-day  ; 
25  per  cent  only  attend  church  services ,   5  per  cent 


98  ^  HISTORY  OF  THE 

are  church  members,  and  only  3  per  cent  g"ive  any- 
thing- to  the  support  of  the  Gospel.  Text:  "Run, 
speak  to  that  young-  man  "  (Zach.  ii :  4). 

Rev.  W.  J.  McCaug-han  began  his  labors  this  morning  as 
pastor  of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church.  Rev.  John 
L.  Withrow,  D.D.,  the  former  pastor,  resigned  June 
26,  1898,  to  return  to  his  old  pulpit  in  the  Park  Street 
Church,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

November  27 — 

Offertory — O  Saviour,  Hear  Me,  -         -         -         -         Gluck. 

Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

Violin  Obligate  by  Miss  Marian  Carpenter. 

December  4 — 

Anthem — While  the  Earth  Remaineth,  -         John  A.  West. 

The  sermon  was  on  Foreign  Missions.  "  Why  was  this 
waste  of  the  ointment  made  ?  "  This  was  the  ques- 
tion of  some  indignant  bystanders,  in  the  house  of 
Simon  the  Leper,  as  they  witnessed  the  woman  break 
the  alabaster  box  of  precious  ointment  and  pour  it  on 
the  head  of  our  Saviour.  The  same  question  is  asked 
to-day  as  to  the  expenditure  annually  of  large  sums  in 
the  mission  fields.  What  about  our  church  edifices, 
their  elaborate  fittings  and  costly  music.  "  Why  this 
waste?  " 

Organ  recital  in  the  church  at  3:30  p.  m.,  by  Mr.  Francis 
S.  Moore,  assisted  by  Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

December  11 — 

Response — That  Blessed  Hope,        .         -         -         Rutenber. 

Offertory — O  Rest  in  the  Lord,       -         -  Mendelssohn. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

December  18 — Sermon  by  Rev.  John  H.  Barrows,  D.D., 
from  Isaiah  i :  2  :  "  Hear,  O  heavens,  and  give  ear,  O 
earth  ;  for  the  Lord  hath  spoken." 

December  25 — Christmas  celebration  : 

Prelude — The  Pastoral  Symphony,       .         -         -        Bach. 

Violin,  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Carol— Sing-  the  Holy  Child-Christ,         -         -         -     Foster. 
Anthem— O  Zion,  that  Tellest  Good  Tidings,        -       Buck. 
Carol — Christ  is  Born,  the  Angels  Sing,         -         -         Otis. 
Quartette  with  Accompaniment  for  Violin,  Violoncello 

and  Organ. 

Violoncello  Solo — Adagio,        -         -         -         -      Golterman. 

Offertory— The  Christ  Child,  -         -         -  Coombs. 

Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

iV/ith  Accompaniment  for  Violin  and  Organ. 

Anthem — O  Come,  Redeemer  of  Mankind,      John  E.  West. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  99 

The  regular  choir  was  assisted  by  Miss  Grace  E.  Dud- 
ley, Miss  Lura  E.  Hathaway  and  Miss  Elizabeth 
Dunlap,  sopranos;  Mrs.  Helen  Burton  and  Miss  Nellie 
E.  Murphy,  altos;  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  Fred- 
erick J.  Wessels,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.  Atkinson  and 
Mr.  F.  H.  Atkinson,  Jr.,  basses;  Miss  Marian  Carpen- 
ter, violin;  Mr.  Bruno  Steindel,  violoncello.  Mr. 
Francis  S.  Moore,  organist. 

Christmas  sermon  by  the  pastor.  Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester, 
D.D.  Subject:  "  Mary,  the  mother  of  Jesus"  (Acts 
i:14). 

1899. 

The  choir  for  the  coming-  year:  Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble 
(S.),  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier  (A.),  Mr.  Glenn  Hall 
(T.)  and  Mr.  Alfred  Williams  (B.).  Mr.  Francis 
S.  Moore,  organist. 

Mr.  Hall  was  absent  from   the  city  during  the  sum- 
mer months,  and  his  -place  was  filled  by  Mr.  Alfred  Rollo. 

January  8 — 

Org-an — Prifere,  ------        Boellman. 

Anthem — Great  Is  Our  Lord,  -         .         -        .      Foster. 

Response — He  will  Forgive,  -         -         -      F.  L.  Moir. 

Offertory — Behold!  What  Manner  of  Love,    -         -      Armes. 

Mrs.  Trimble  and  Mr.  Hall. 
Org-an — March  in  C, Bossi. 

January  22 — 

Oflfertory— O  God,  Who  Is  Like  unto  Thee,  -       Foster. 

Dr.  Chichester  took  for  his  subject,  "The  fetters  that 
bind  us,"  basing  his  remarks  on  the  last  verse  of  St. 
Paul's  letter  to  the  Colossians  (iv:  18):  "Remember 
my  bonds.     Grace  be  with  you.   Amen." 

January  29 — 

Anthem— Thou,' O  Lord,  art  Praised  in  Zion,       -         .         - 
Bertram  Luard  Selby. 

The  pastor  spoke  from  the  first  epistle  of  Peter  iii:  16: 
"  Having  a  good  conscience." 

February  12 — 

Response — The  Father's  Promise,        -         -  Rutenber. 

Offertory— The  Soft  Southern  Breeze  (Eebekah),    Barnby. 

Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

"  Home  missions  and  the  modern  city,"  was  the  subject 
of  the  sermon.  Text  from  the  first  verse  of  the  127th 
Psalm:  "  Except  the  Lord  keep  the  city." 


100  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

Rev.  Josiah  Strong-,  D.D.,  author  of  the  work  entitled,  "Our 
Country,"  has  given  much  thought  to  the  depopula- 
tion of  the  country  districts  for  the  benefit  of  the 
cities.  The  working-  people  flock  to  the  cities,  where 
living  is  cheaper.  It  is  possible.  Dr.  Strong  says,  to 
support  life  in  New  York  City  on  four  cents  a  day — 
bed,  one  cent;  breakfast,  one  cent;  dinner,  one  cent, 
and  supper,  one  cent.  Another  cent  will  buy  a  news- 
paper. Dr.  Chichester  stated  that  one  hundred  years 
ago  only  one  person  out  of  thirty  lived  in  the  city; 
fifty  years  ago,  one  out  of  twelve.  To-day  the  coun- 
try districts  in  parts  of  New  England  are  almost 
deserted,  so  great  is  the  rush  to  the  city.  The  Chi- 
cago directory  of  1830  contained  a  voting  list  of  thirty 
names;  to-day  the  population  is  1,800,000.  Forty  per 
cent  of  the  people  of  Massachusetts  now  live  in  the 
city  of  Boston  and  its  suburbs.  The  improvement  in 
farm  machinerj^  is  one  cause  for  the  desertion  of  the 
agricultural  districts.  Four  men  can  now  do  the  work 
on  the  farm,  which  fifty  years  ago  required  four- 
teen. Consider  the  enormous  tide  of  immigration  to 
America.  What  are  we  to  do  with  these  foreigners 
who  are  being  landed  in  New  York  City  at  the  rate  of 
1,000  to  5,000  per  day?  How  can  they  be  taught  the 
requirements  of  good  citizenship?  Fifty  years  ago  it 
cost  each  emigrant  $50  to  cross  the  ocean,  and  it  took 
five  weeks  to  come.  To-day  it  costs  $14.50,  and  the 
steamers  cross  in  nine  days.  There  are  over  1,000,- 
000  foreigners  in  Chicago  and  only  one  church  for 
5,000  people.  There  are  several  districts,  each  con- 
taining 40,000  foreigners,  without  a  church  of  any  kind. 
All  the  church  buildings  and  mission  schools  in  Chicago 
will  seat  only  800,000.  One  million  of  people,  accord- 
ingly, could  not  go  to  church  at  all.  In  Paris  100,000 
gens  d'' amies  are  needed  to  keep  order;  in  London,  3,000 
police.  Queen  Victoria  sa3^s  the  Bible  is  the  cause  of 
England's  prosperity  and  success.  Dr.  Chichester 
assigns  two  reasons  for  the  destitution  and  poverty  in 
our  cities:  man's  environment  and  man  himself. 

February  19 — Text  of  the  sermon:  "And  Enoch  vralked 
with  God."     (Genesis  v:  22.) 

February  26 — 

Anthem — The  Lord  Is  My  Rock,       -         -         -      Woodman. 

March  26 — 

Anthem — O  God,  Who  Is  Like  unto  Tliee,        -  Foster. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  IQl 

The  text  of  the  pastor's  sermon  was  taken  from  St. 
Matthew  vii:  29:  "  He  taught  them  as  one  having- 
authority." 

April  2 — Easter  Sunda3\     Festival  service: 

Prelude — Hymn  to  St.  Cecilia,  ...  Gounod. 

Violin,  Violoncello  and  Org-an. 
Choral — For  Us  the  Christ  is  Made  a  Victim  Availing, 

Gounod. 
Anthem — Now  Is  Christ  Risen,  -  -  John  E.  West. 
Anthem — The  Lord  shall  Comfort  Zion,  -  Lutkin. 

Easter  Song-, Otis. 

Violin,  Violoncello  and  Org-an. 
Offertory — I  Know  that  My  Redeemer  Liveth,  Handel. 

Mrs.  Clara  G.  Trimble. 
With  Accompaniment  for  Violin,  Violoncello  and  Org-an. 
Anthem — Shout,  Ye  High  Heavens,  -         -     Chadwick. 

With  Accompaniment  for  Violin,  Violoncello  and  Org-an. 
Organ — Alleluia  in  E  Flat,        ....  Dubois. 

The  church  quartette  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Fanny  Utley 
Pine,  Mrs.  Virginia  Evans,  Miss  Elizabeth  Dunlap 
and  Miss  Sarah  Munson,  sopranos;  Miss  Jennie  F. 
Johnson,  Miss  Edna  Marion  Barnes,  Miss  Anna  Houser 
and  Miss  E.  W.  Ockenga,  altos;  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and 
Mr.  Frederick  J.  Wessels,  tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T. 
Atkinson  and  Mr.  H.  B.  Harvey,  basses;  Mr.  Emil 
Bare,  violin;  Mr.  Bruno  Steindel,  violoncello.  Mr. 
Francis  S.  Moore,  organist. 

Easter  sermon  by  the  pastor.  Subject,  "The  immortal 
life."     (I  Cor.  xv:  53.) 

April  9 — 

Offertory — Forever  with  the  Lord,   -        -         -  Gounod. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Dr.  Chichester  spoke  on  the  exclamation  of  King  Saul  to 
the  witch  of  Endor:  "For  the  Philistines  make  war 
against  me,  and  God  is  departed  from  me  and  answereth 
me  no  more,  neither  by  prophets  nor  dreams."  (I 
Samuel  xxviii:  15.)  The  pastor's  subject  was:  "The 
true  imitation  of  Christ." 

April  16 — The  text  was:  "  Let  this  mind  be  in  you  which 
was  also  in  Christ  Jesus."  (Philippians  ii:  5.) 

April  23— 

Anthem — I  will  Mention  the  Loving-  Kindnesses  of 

the  Lord, Sullivan., 

Choir  assisted  by  Mr.  Henry  A.  Mix  (T.). 


102  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

The  pastor's  sermon  was  on  the  "Inspiration  of  visions." 
The  prophet  Joel  (ii:  28)  saj^^s:  "Your  sons  and  your 
daug-fiters  shall  prophesy,  your  old  men  shall  dream 
dreams,  your  young-  men  shall  see  visions."  Mankind 
can  be  divided  into  two  classes,  the  practical  and  the 
visionary.  The  sermon  was  a  plea  for  the  dreamer, 
on  whom  most  of  us  look  with  small  favor.  Nothing- 
streng-thens  the  heart  more  in  the  battle  of  life  than  a 
hig-h  ideal.  Where  no  vision  is,  the  people  perish. 
The  men  who  have  seen  visions  are  doing-  the  most  in 
the  world  to-day.  Galileo,  Newton,  Columbus,  Tyn- 
dall,  Lincoln  were  all  dreamers. 

April  30 —  . 

Anthem — Great  Is  Our  Lord,     -        -        -        -  Foster, 

Dr.  Chichester's  topic  was:  "The  Privileges  of  Christian 
Faith."  The  sermon  was  based  on  the  seventeenth 
and  eighteenth  verses  of  the  sixteenth  chapter  of  the 
Gospel  of  St.  Mark:  "And  these  sig-ns  shall  follow 
them  that  believe;  in  My  name  shall  they  cast  out 
devils,"  etc. 

May  7 — 

Anthem — O  Come,  Let  Us  Worship,         -        Mendelssohn. 
(From  the  Ninety-fifth  Psalm.) 

Rev.  Simon  John  McPherson,  D.D.,  tendered  his  resigna- 
tion this  morning-  as  pastor  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church.  He  leaves  Chicago  to  take  the  position  of 
head  master  of  the  school  at  Lawrenceville,  N.  J. 

May  1-1 — The  pastor's  sermon  was  based  on  the  eig-hth 
verse  of  the  twenty-second  chapter  of  Deuteronomy: 
"When  thou  buildest  a  new  house,  then  thou  shalt 
make  a  battlement  for  the  roof."  Dr.  Chichester 
closed  his  sermon  with  an  appeal  for  the  work  at  Rail- 
road Chapel.  The  offering-  for  this  purpose  amounted 
to  $2,000. 

May  21 — Pulpit  occupied  by  Professor  Zenos,  of  the 
McCormick  Seminary.  Text  from  St.  Luke  xi:  42: 
"These  ought  ye  to  have  done,  and  not  to  leave  the 
other  undone." 

May  28 — Dr.  Chichester  preached  upon  "  Christian  Sci- 
ence." Text,  Proverbs  xxiii:  7:  "  As  he  thinketh  in 
his  heart,  so  is  he." 

.June  11 — Children's  day.  Dr.  Chichester  made  an  address 
to  the  children,  basing-  his  remarks  on  a  part  of  the 
eighth  verse  of  the  fourteenth  chapter  of  Judg-es: 
"And  behold,  there  v/as  a  swarm  of  bees." 


THE    SECOND    PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH,    N.  W.    CORNER    OF    MICHIGAN 
AVENUE  AND  TWENTIETH  STREET.     DESTROYED  BY  EIRE  THURS- 
DAY   NIGHT,   MARCH    8,   1900.       THIS    PICTURE  WAS  TAKEN 
THE    DAY    FOLLOWING    THE    FIRE. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN    CHURCH.  103 

June  18 — 

Response — Thou  Earth,  Waft  Sweet  Incense,         -     Spohr. 

(From  the  Cantata,  "  God,  Thou  art  Great.  ") 
Offertory— O  Jesus,  Thou  art  Standing-,"  -    Foster. 

Choir  Assisted  by  Miss  Grace  E.  Dudley  (S.). 

June  25 — Subject  of  the  pastor's  sermon,  "Orthodoxy." 
The  apostle  Paul,  in  his  letter  to  Titus  (ii:  1),  says: 
"But  speak  thou  the  things  which  become  sound  doc- 
trine." 

A  brass  tablet  has  been  placed  in  the  church  during-  the 
past  week,  bearing- this  inscription: 

In  Memory  of 

Asa  Page  Kelley. 

1822-1893. 

Some  Time  an  Elder  in  this  Church. 

This  Tablet  is  Erected 

BY  His  Daughter, 
Mary  Kelley  Shufeldt. 
July  9— 

Offertory— O  God,  Have  Mercy,  -        -    Mendelssohn. 

(From  St.  Paul.) 

Mr.  Alfred  "Williams. 

The  pastor's  last  Sunday  before  his  vacation.  His  ser- 
mon was  founded  on  the  text:  "As  an  eagle  stirreth 
up  her  nest,  fluttereth  over  her  young,  spreadeth 
abroad  her  wings,  taketh  them,  beareth  them  on  her 
wings,"  etc.     (Deuteronomy  xxxii:  11.) 

July  16— Rev.  D.  C.  Marquis,  D.D.,  in  the  pulpit.  Text 
of  sermon:  "I  know  thy  works  and  where  thou  dwell- 
est,  even  where  Satan's  seat  is."    (Revelations  ii:  13.) 

JuLY_^23— Pulpit  occupied  by  Rev.  W.  N.  Page,  D.D.,  of 
Fort  Leavenv/orth,  Kan. 

July  30— Sermon  by  Rev.  W.  N.  Page,  D.D.,  who  took  for 
his  text:  "For  the  kingdom  of  God  is  not  meat  and 
drink;  but  righteousness  and  peace  and  joy  in  the  Holy 
Ghost."     (Romans  xiv:  17.) 

The  church  was  closed  during  the  month  of  August. 
September  3  and  10— Pulpit  occupied   by  Rev.  Reuben 
Haines  Hartley,  D.D.,  of  La  Porte,  Ind. 

September  17— Dr.  Chichester  resumed  his  work  this 
morning,  taking  as  the  subject  of  his  discourse 
"Spiritual  Effectiveness."  His  subject  was  the  raising 
of  the  Shunammite's  son  byElisha,as  told  in  the  fourth 


104  A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

chapter  of  II  King-s.  Church  members  are  too  apt  In 
this  day  to  do  g-ood  through  others,  as  Elisha  sent 
Gehazi,  instead  of  g"oing-  himself.  There  is  too  much 
dependence  to-day  on  committees,  boards  and  other 
elaborate  org-anizations;  too  little  personal  responsi- 
bility. The  General  Assembly  report  (1894)  showed 
a  net  increase  for  the  preceding-  year  of  40,000  mem- 
bers. In  1896  this  increase  had  dropped  to  20,000.  In 
1897  the  increase  was  only  13,000.  For  the  year  end- 
ing- May,  1899,  this  increase  had  fallen  to  8,000. 

October  15 — 

Anthem — Thou  Visiteth  the  Earth,  -  -  -  Barnby. 
Subject  of  the  pastor's  sermon,  "A  plea  for  the  Jew." 
October  29 — 

Offertory — The  "Woods  and  Every  Sweet  Smelling  Tree, 

John  E.  West, 

Dr.  Chichester  spoke  on  the  "Reserve  forces  of  life." 
Text:  "  Then  shall  the  king-dom  of  heaven  be  likened 
unto  ten  virg-ins  which  took  their  lamps  and  went 
forth  to  meet  the  bridegroom.  And  five  of  them  were 
wise  and  five  were  foolish."      (St.  Matthew  xxv:  1,  2.) 

September  17 — Sunday  afternoon  ;  funeral  services  of  Mr. 
Edward  Allen  Packard,  conducted  by  Rev.  W.  J.  Chi- 
chester, D.D.  Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier  sang-  the 
hymns,  "  Lead,  Kindly  Lig-ht  "  and  "  Abide  with  Me." 

Mr.  Packard  was  admitted  to  the  membership  of  this 

church  March  26,  1866,  by  letter  from  the  First  Cong-re- 

gational  Church  of  Stockton,  N.  Y. 

November  12 — 

Offertory — The  Ninety  and  Nine,    -        -        -        Campion. 
Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 

The  pastor  spoke  on  "  Environment  "  as  one  of  the  influ- 
ences in  shaping-  human  life.  Text:  "  For  in  Him  we 
live  and  move,  and  have  our  being-."     (Acts  xvii :  28.) 

November  18 — Saturday  afternoon;  funeral  services  of  Mr. 
Franklin  Van  Tuyl  Chamberlain  at  his  late  residence 
in  Evanston,  conducted  by  Dr.  Chichester,  and  Dr. 
Boyd,  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Evanston. 

Mr.  Chamberlain  was  born  in  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y., 
December  26,  1820.  He  came  to  Chicag-o  in  1849,  and, 
with    his    wife,  was    admitted  to    membership    in     this 


MK.  ALFRED  WILLIAMS. 


FIRST  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH.  105 

church  March  9,  1850.  He  was  elected  an  elder,  February 
22,  1853.  In  1861  he  removed  to  Cincinnati,  remaining- 
there  until  1878,  when  he  returned  to  Chicag-o.  Soon  after 
his  return  he  was  ag-ain  chosen  elder,  retaining-  the  office 
until  his  death,  November  16,  1899. 

November  30 — Thursday  morning- ;  Union  Thanksg-iv- 
ing-  Service  of  the  Plymouth  Cong-reg-ational,  Trinity 
Methodist  Episcopal,  the  First  Christian,  the  First 
Presbyterian  and  the  Second  Presbyterian  churches, 
held  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church: 

Organ — Andante  in  D, Hollins. 

Anthem — O  God  ,Who  Is  Like  unto  Thee,  -        Foster. 

Solo — A  Song  of  Thanksgiving,  -         -         .      Allitsen. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 
Offertory — My  Song  shall  Be  Alway  Thy  Mercy, 

Mendelssohn. 
Miss  Mary  P.  Thomson  and  Mr.  Glenn  Hall. 
Organ — Harvest  Thanksgiving  March,      -         -         Calkin. 

Sermon  by  Rev.  W.  G.  McLennan,  D.D.,  pastor  of  Trin- 
ity Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  Text:  "Bless  the 
Lord,  O  my  soul ;  and  all  that  is  within  me  bless  His 
holy  name."     (Psalm  ciii:  1.) 

December  24 — Christmas  celebration: 

Prelude — Hymn  to  Saint  Cecilia,         -        .        .       Gounod. 

Violin,  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Anthem — There  Were  Shepherds,        -        -  Chadwick. 

Carol — Christ  is  Born,  the  Angels  Sing,     -        -  Otis. 

Quartette,  writh  Accompaniment  for  Violin,  Violoncello  and 

Organ. 
Anthem— It  Came  upon  the  Midnight  Clear,      -       Stainer. 

Violoncello — Romanza, Becker. 

Mr.  Bruno  Steindel. 

Offertory— The  Nativity,       -        -        .        -  Shelley. 

With  Accompaniment  for  Violin  and  Organ. 

Mrs.  Christine  N.  Dreier. 

Sermon — The  Wise  Men  and  the  Babe, 

Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D. 

Anthem — O  Sing  to  God, Gounod. 

With  Accompaniment  for  Violin,  Violoncello  and  Organ. 
Postlude— The  Hallelujah  Chorus,     -        -        -        Handel. 

The  reg-ular  choir  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  Virg-inia  Evans, 
Miss  Grace  E.  Dudley,  Miss  Mary  Hansel  and  Miss 
Normanda  Hvale,  sopranos;  Miss  Nellie  Murphy,  Miss 
Anna  Read  and  Miss  Julia  Clark,  altos;  Mr.  John  E. 
Walker,  Mr.  Philo  A.  Otis  and  Mr.  F.  J.  Wessels, 
tenors;  Mr.  Charles  T.Atkinson,  Mr.  F.  H.Atkinson, 
Jr.,  and  Mr.  Arthur  T.  Scott,  basses;  Mr.  Leon  Marx, 
violin;  Mr.  Bruno  Steindel,  violoncello.  Mr.  Francis 
S.  Moore,  organist. 


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A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

Great  cliang-es  have  taken  place  in  the  past  sixty  years 
in  the  character  of  church  mu^3ic  m  this  country,  owing"  to 
the  more  general  culture  and  cultivated  tastes  among- 
church  cong-reg"ations.  If  more  is  expected  of  the  choir 
master  now  than  then,  he  is  at  least  g-iven  better  material 
with  which  to  work.  There  were  not  many  churches 
before  1850  that  could  do  much  more  for  the  support  of 
their  music  than  to  provide  the  sing-ers  with  hymn  and 
tune  books.  Salaried  choirs  and  two-manual  org-ans  were 
then  almost  unknown.  The  iiute  and  bass  viol  were  the 
instruments  generally  heard  in  church  v/orship;  the  melo- 
deon  was  just  coming-  into  use.  It  was  the  precursor  of 
the  present  cabinet  organ  and  orj^;an  harmonium. 

A  friend,  who  was  brought  up  according-  to  the  Old 
School  doctrines  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  in  a  country 
district  of  a  neighboring-  state,  to  whom  I  wrote  recently 
asking  about  hymn  books  and  instruments,  replies: 

"  The  impressions  received  of  a  village  choir  in  my 
childhood  may  give  you  a  fair  idea  of  the  character  of  the 
music  commonly  heard  at  that  time  in  the  churches 
throughout  the  Western  States."     He  continues  : 

My  home  (from  1846  to  1856)  was  in  a  farming  com- 
munity, close  by  a  lovely  village,  where  the  people  worked 
hard,  feared  God  and  attended  church  regularly.  As  I 
look  back  on  that  period  of  my  life,  over  an  interval  of 
forty  years,  there  are  three  things  which  come  promi- 
nently to  mind — the  Sabbath,  the  village  church  and 
the  choir.  My  parents  were  devout,  religious  people  of 
the  strict  Presbyterian  faith,  who  had  been  carefully 
nurtured  in  the  fear  of  the  Lord.  The  Sabbath  was  for 
them  literally  a  day  of  rest,  when  every  member  of  the 
household  must  cease  all  but  the  necessary  farm  work, 
and  must  go  to  church.  To  the  young  people  of  the  family 
the  day  was  something  more;  the  Sunday  services  and 
the  occasional  meetings  of  the  choir  for  practice  brought 
some  relief  to  the  hard,  dull  routine  of  farm  life,  and  really 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  107 

g-ave  us  the  only  opportunity  we  had  for  meeting-  our 
friends  and  learning-  something-  of  the  events  going-  on  in 
the  great  world  outside. 

The  meeting-  house  was  built  after  the  New  England 
pattern :  white,  with  green  blinds,  and  the  usual  steeple 
and  bell  with  the  rope  falling  in  the  vestibule. 

"  Meeting  "  invariably  began  with  a  prayer  by  the  min- 
ister, followed  by  the  announcement  of  a  hymn  ;  then 
there  would  be  a  pause  for  the  choir  leader  to  find  a  tune. 
Sometimes  after  long  and  anxious  waiting-,  the  leader 
would  rise  from  his  place  in  the  choir  gallery  at  the  oppo- 
site end  of  the  church,  and  g-ravely  request  the  minister  to 
change  the  hymn,  as  the  meter  of  the  hymn  announced 
was  unfamiliar  to  the  singers.  A  tune  being  found,  the 
singers  would  take  their  pitch  from  the  leader'stuningfork, 
each  sounding-  the  note  of  his  or  her  part,  the  Do,  Mi,  Sol 
being-  heard  distinctly  throughout  the  church.  Though 
the  voices  were  often  harsh  and  strident,  deficient  in  com- 
pass and  intonation,  and  though  there  was  an  utter  ab- 
sence of  the  delicate  blending  we  expect  to-day,  the  people 
sang-  with  fervent  hearts,  and,  at  least,  made  a  joyful 
sound  1  In  1850  we  did  not  have  the  convenient  hymn  and 
tune  book  of  later  years,  with  the  music  at  the  top  of  the 
page  and  the  words  directly  below.  Each  sing-er  held  a 
small  book  of  hymns  in  the  rig-ht  hand  and  a  cumbrous 
tune  book  in  the  other,  and  with  eyes  cast  now  on  the 
leader,  now  on  the  words  and  now  on  the  tune,  made  the 
best  of  such  awkward  arrangements. 

For  a  long-  time  the  only  instrument  used  in  the  choir 
was  the  leader's  tuning-  fork.  Some  one  came  to  the 
village  after  a  while,  who  played  the  flute  ;  he  was  brought 
into  the  choir.  In  this  way  a  bass  viol  (and,  I  think,  a 
clarinet)  was  added  to  the  musical  forces  on  the  Sabbath. 
About  1855  we  procured  a  melodeon — innovations  which 
were  not  entirely  regarded  with  favor.  The  pastor  of  a 
neighboring-  church  occupied  our  pulpit  one  Sunday,  and, 
as  he  arose  to  give  out  the  first  hymn,  hearing  some  tun- 
ing and  scraping  in  the  direction  of  the  choir  g-allery, 
asked  the  congregation  to  arise  while  the  choir  "fiddle 
and  sing  the  hymn  1 " 

Before  the  melodeon  came  into  general  use,  there  were 
instruments  sometimes  heard  in  country  churches  which 
would  now  be  regarded  as  curiosities.  A  primitive  form 
of   the  melodeon  was    styled   "  seraphina ";  it   bad    two 


108  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

octaves  of  reeds,  and  the  wind  was  supplied  by  a  treadle 
worked  with  the  foot.  Another  instrument  was  called  the 
"  dulcimer,"  a  stringed  instrument,  the  tone  of  which  was 
produced  by  striking*  the  strings  with  sticks  having  rub- 
ber tips.  Another  form  of  a  "  dulcimer  "  was  the  "  sym- 
phony," the  tone  being  obtained  by  picking  the  strings 
with  the  thumb  and  finger. 

I  have  a  distinct  remembrance  of  the  music  that  was 
sung  at  the  funerals  I  attended  when  a  child.  The  hymns 
"Hark!  From  the  Tombs  a  Doleful  Sound,"  "Why  Do 
We  Mourn  Departing  Friends?"  sung  to  the  tune  of 
"China,"  "Sister,  Thou  wast  Mild  and  Lovely,"  and 
others,  equally  mournful  in  character,  v^ere  favorites  with 
the  village  choir  on  these  occasions.  The  hymn,  "I  would 
Not  Live  Alway"  (tune  "Frederick")  was  often  heard, 
and  as  often  pitched  too  high.  How  the  women's  voices 
would  struggle  for  the  high  notes!  We  have  to-day  some 
beautiful  hymns,  dear  to  the  whole  Christian  world,  which 
were  not  found  in  the  hymnals  in  use  fifty  years  ago: 
"Lead,  Kindly  Light,"  "Nearer,  My  God,  to  Thee,"  and 
"Abide  with  Me."  When  we  secured  an  organ,  thirty 
years  afterward,  and  the  flute,  violin,  bass  viol,  clarinet  and 
horn  had  disappeared  from  the  choir  gallery,  the  music,  to 
my  mind,  lost  much  of  its  character. 

I  have  another  letter  from  a  dear  old  'choir  leader,  Mr. 
A.  R.  Peck,  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Beloit, 
Wis.,  written  in  much  the  same  vein,  telling  of  the  books 
and  instruments  used  in  his  day.  Mr.  Peck  made  an 
address  at  the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  his  church, 
March  21,  1899,  speaking  of  his  choir  recollections,  which 
date  from  1841.  How  he  loved  his  work!  The  letter  will 
speak  for  itself: 

I  am  a  farmer  living  on  the  farm  my  father  bought 
fifty-eight  years  ago,  three  miles  from  the  city  of  Beloit. 
I  have  traveled  that  distance  day  and  night  in  all  kinds  of 
weather  to  gratify  my  love  for  music.  For  years  I  have 
never  missed  a  Saturday  night  rehearsal,  nor  a  Sun- 
day service,  morning  or  evening.  It  never  stormed  so 
hard,  nor  was  the  cold  ever  so  severe  that  I  was  kept  at 
home. 

The  first  time  music  is  mentioned  in  the  records  of 
this  church  was  at  the  dedication  of  the  frame  meeting 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  109 

house  commonly  known  as  the  "Lord's  House,"  January 
4,  1834,  and  refers  to  a  hymn  written  for  the  occasion  by 
Mr.  G.  T.  Sproat,  a  Baptist  brother:^ 

God  of  the  glorious  world  above! 

Before  Thy  gracious  throne  we  bow; 
O  send  the  spirit  of  Thy  love, 

And  smile  upon  Thy  children  now. 

We  dedicate  this  house  to  Thee, 

To  Thee  these  sacred  walls  we  raise — 

O  deign  to  send  Thy  spirit  down 

And  fill  these  earthly  courts  with  praise. 

Within  these  walls  let  sacred  peace. 

And  love  and  hope  and  union  dwell; 
Here  give  the  troubled  conscience  ease — 

The  lost  restore,  the  wounded  heal. 

And  O  may  here  the  Gospel  sound, 

Sent  by  the  spirit  of  Thy  Grace, 
Awaken  many  sinners  round, 

To  come  and  fill  this  sacred  place 

Lord,  we  are  weak — but  Thou  art  strong; 

Lord,  we  are  few — but  Thou  art  near. 
O  make  this  house  Thy  dwelling  place. 

Come  down  and  reign  forever  here. 

The  Chicag-o  Daily  Democrat  of  January  21,  1834,  in 
its  account  of  the  services,  publishes  the  sermon  of  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Porter  and  all  the  verses  of  the  hymn,  but  says 
nothing-  about  the  tune  to  which  the  hymn  was  [sung-,  nor 
does  it  speak  of  any  other  hymn  being  sung  on  this  occa- 
sion. As  the  measure  is  in  long-  meter,  and  the  verses 
have  some  vig-or,  "The  Old  Hundred"  may  have  been 
used,  and  would  have  been  an  appropriate  and  effective 
setting. 

There  was  undoubtedly  a  choir  in  the  early  days  of 
the  church,  as  a  resolution  adopted  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Session,  December  16,  1834,  reads: 

In  compliance  with  a  request  from  the  singers,  it  was 
voted  to  advise  the  congregation  to  stand  during  the  sing-- 
ing  and  incline  the  head  upon  the  bench  before  them  dur- 
ing prayer  in  our  public  worship. 


^Historical  Sermon,  by  Rev.  Jotin  H.  Barrows,D.D.,  1883,  page  25. 


110  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

The  only  names  of  choir  members  zX  this  period 
(1834-35),  as  far  as  can  now  be  ascertained,  v/ere  Mr.  Bates 
(violin),  and  Mr.  James  Marshall  (flute). 

We  know  nothing-  of  the  character  of  the  music  in  the 
church  at  this  time.  Hymns  were  sung-,  possibly  anthems  ; 
but  the  choir  music,  if  any,  was  probably  of  the  simplest 
kind.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Porter,  Mr.  Philo  Carpen- 
ter^ and  a  few  other  survivors  of  the  founders  of  the 
church,  who  were  present  at  the  Jubilee  Services  in  1883, 
could  have  given  much  information  reg-arding-  the  choir  of 
their  time  ;  but  they  have  all  since  passed  away.  The 
sturdy  pioneers  of  1833  had  little  time  for  choir  practice  ! 
Their  work  was  of  a  more  serious  character  in  laying-  the 
foundations,  deep  and  strong-,  of  the  oldest  organization  in 
Chicag-o,  civic  or  religious. 

A  few  surviving  members  of  the  congregation  in  Dr. 
Bascom's  time,  v,^ho  remember  the  music  and  the  choir, 
all  agree  that  there  was  no  organ  of  any  description  in  the 
"Wooden  Church,"  as  the  first  meeting-  house  vv'as  called, 
after  its  removal  to  the  new  location  on  Clark  Street,  south 
of  Washington.  During  the  period  services  were  held  in 
this  building  (1837-49),  the  music  was  congreg'ational  in 
character,  supported  b}'-  a  chorus  choir,  of  which  the  first 
leader,  as  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  was  Mr.  Seth  P.  War- 
ner. Mr.  Augustus  G.  Downs  became  a  member  of  the 
choir  about  1841.  He  played  the  bass  viol  and  succeeded 
Mr.  Warner  in  the  leadership.  Mr.  Edward  C.  Cleaver, 
who  joined  the  choir  in  1845,  continuing-  with  it  until  1852, 
writes  of  his  recollections  : 

I  played  the  violoncello  in  the  frame  church,  on  Clark 
Street,  back  of  the  new  one,  until  I  purchased  a  double 
bass,  for  which  the  church  afterward  paid.     I  played  this 


»  Mr.  Philo  Carpenter  came  to  Chicago  in  July,  1832,  from  Savoy,  Berkshire 
county,  Mass.,  where  he  was  born  February  27,  1805.  His  journey  from  Buffalo  was  by 
the  steamer  "  Enterprise  "  to  Detroit ;  thence  in  the  mail  wagon  to  Niles,  Mich.,  where 
he  transferred  his  effects  to  a  flat  boat  going  down  the  St.  Joe  river  to  its  mouth.  The 
cholera  was  raging  that  summer  (1832)  in  Fort  Dearborn,  and  all  ordinary  intercourse 
with  Chicago  was  suspended.  Young  Carpenter  hired  two  Indians  to  tow  his  boat 
around  the  southern  end  of  the  lake,  finally  landing  about  whore  Douglas  Place  now  is. 
He  was  an  elder  in  the  First  Church  fourteen  years,  and  then  withdrew  with  others  to 
form  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church.  In  1851  he  helped  to  found  the  First  Congrega- 
tional Church.    Mr.  Carpenter  died  in  Chicago,  August  7,  1886. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  \\\ 

instrument  until  I  resig-ned  in  1852.  The  sing-ing-  book 
most  used  when  I  was  in  the  choir  was  the  "  Carmina 
Sacra,"  compiled  by  Mason.  At  the  opening-  of  the 
new  church  the  music  was  led  by  Dr.  Dunham,^  at  that 
time  an  accomplished  sing-er.  Mr.  C.  B.  Nelson  played 
the  flute  and  I  the  double  bass.  The  opening-  piece  on  this 
occasion  was  the  anthem,  "  Great  Is  the  Lord,  and  Greatly 
to  be  Praised."  Among- the  ladies  of  the  choir  were:  Miss 
Lang-don,  Miss  Sarah  Downs,  Miss  Johhson  and  Miss 
Sarah  Brookes.  Miss  Downs  v/as  at  that  time  conducting- 
a  little  school  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Madison  and  La 
Salle  Streets.  Mr.  A.  G.  Dow^ns  was  a  member.  I  think 
a  Mr.  Whitmarsh  sang-  bass.  Mr.  Seth  P.  Warner,  sexton 
in  the  wooden  church,  and  afterward  in  the  brick  church, 
was  also  a  member. 

Mrs.  Lj'^dia  E.  Downs  says  of  the  choir  of  that  time : 

Mr.  A.  G.  Downs  probably  joined  the  choir  of  the 
First  Church  as  early  as  1841,  and  assisted  sometimes  as  a 
sing-er  and  sometimes  as  a  player  of  the  violoncello.  Other 
members  of  the  choir  were:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Downs, 
Mrs.  William  Saltonstall,  her  mother  Mrs.  Aiken,  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Seth  P.  V/arner.  I  left  the  church  in  1849  when 
Rev.  Flavel  Bascom  was  still  pastor. 

And  Mrs.  Oliver  K.  Johnson  says: 

My  recollection  of  the  choir  in  the  brick  church  is 
very  vag-ue,  though  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fassett  are  strongly  as- 
sociated in  my  mind  among-  the  members.  The  wooden 
church  which  stood  at  the  south  end  of  the  lot  was  en- 
tirely before  my  day,  but  Mrs.  Freer  has  tried  to  give  me 
the  benefit  of  her  good  memory.  The  choir  sat  at  the 
north  end  of  the  church,  facing-  the  minister,  and  v/hen 
they  arose  to  sing-,  the  people  rose  at  the  same  time,  turn- 
ing- around  and  facing-  the  singers.  The  choir  was  com- 
posed of  all  members  of  the  cong-regation  who  could  sing-, 
young-  and  old,  the  }' oung-  ladies  being  particularly  welcome. 

With  the  completion  of  the  "Brick  Church"  in  1849, 
the  choir  still  continued  to  be  a  chorus,  accompanied  by 
stringed  instruments  until  1852,  when  a  melodeon  was 
introduced. 

A  general  estimate  of  the  music  can  no  doubt  be  ar- 
rived at  from  a  glance  at  the  condition  of  music  in  other 

iDr.  Dunham  was  a  member  of  the  Musical  Union  in  1857,  and  occasionally  con- 
ducted its  rehearsals.  He  led  the  choir  in  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church  in  1863  and 
1864. 


112  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

churches  of  Chicago,  and  the  character  of  the  musical 
literature  in  use  among-  choirs  at  that  time. 

When  I  came  to  Chicago  in  February,  1857,  the  city 
still  retained  many  features  of  the  small  town,  though  the 
population  numbered  nearly  100,000.  The  music  ordi- 
narily heard  on  Sunday  was  but  little  better  than  that  of 
the  village  choir;  this  was  certainly  true  of  the  churches 
I  attended  during  the  two  years  following  my  arrival. 
The  choirs  were  generally  composed  of  volunteers.  There 
were  not  many  organs,  and  the  melodeon  was  the  usual 
means  for  accompanying  the  choir. 

The  volunteer  chorus  choir  was,  however,  gradually 
giving  way  to  the  trained  quartette.  The  First  Presby- 
terian Church  changed  to  a  quartette  with  the  occupation 
of  the  new  building  on  Wabash  Avenue.  The  reasons  for 
abandoningthetime  honored  chorus  were  many.  Although 
there  were  always  plenty  of  good  voices,  good  leaders  and 
organists  who  knew  their  business  and  could  make  the 
meetings  for  practice  attractive  and  helpful  for  the  singers, 
were  scarce.  The  fact  is,  moreover,  that  even  in  large 
congregations  it  is  difficult  to  find  a  score  of  fair  singers 
who  will  bend  to  the  task  of  regular  attendance  at  rehear- 
sals and  services  year  in  and  year  out,  however  attractive 
and  useful  the  exercises  may  be  made.  The  life  of  a  me- 
tropolis is  not  conducive  to  such  sacrifices.  In  the  olden 
days  the  choir  meeting  was  generally  a  social  gathering,  to 
which  everybody  came  for  the  purpose  of  having  a  good 
time.  The  musical  demand  was  easily  satisfied,  the  choir 
looked  over  the  hymns  for  the  next  Sabbath  and  perhaps 
an  occasional  anthem  or  "set  piece,"  and  the  evening's 
work  was  done. 

Mr.  N.  J.  Corey,  of  Detroit,  in  his  article  on  "The 
Making  of  Music  in  the  Churches,"  in  the  August,  1899, 
number  of  the  Mjisician,  says: 

The  ideal  choir  is,  of  course,  the  well  trained  chorus, 
with  a  quartette  to  lead.  But  the  maintenance  of  such  a 
choir  presents  difficulties  that  are  insurmountable  to  the 
average  church.  There  are  two  classes  of  churches  in 
which  chorus  choirs  may  be  found,  and  these  at  the  two 
extremes  of  temporal  prosperity:  the  wealthy  congregation 


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THE  FIRST   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH,   1866 — WABASH  AVENUE   NEAR 
CONGRESS   STREET. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  113 

that  can  afford  to  remunerate  the  members  of  the  chorus, 
and  the  strug-g-ling-  church  that  is  oblig-ed  to  depend  upon 
volunteers.  In  the  latter  case  it  is  very  often  necessary 
for  the  musical  members  of  the  congreg-ation  to  give  fullest 
exercise  to  their  spiritual  grace,  in  order  to  overlook  the 
lapses  from  musical  grace  in  the  choir  loft.  "How  is  it," 
said  one  minister  to  another,  "that  you  are  advocating  a 
paid  choir,  when  I  have  alwa3's  understood  that  you  were 
opposed  to  paying  for  the  singing  of  God's  praises?" 

"  Well,"  he  answered,  "I  find  it  will  soon  be  necessary 
to  pay  the  congregation  for  coming  to  our  services,  if  the 
volunteer  singers  remain,  and  I  think  it  will  be  cheaper  to 
pay  a  choir." 

This  was  not  so  badly  put.  Indeed,  the  vain  and 
torturing  struggles  of  many  volunteer  choirs  (and  some 
paid  ones,  for  that  matter),  with  nondescript  anthems, 
implies  a  large  amount  of  Christian  patience  and  fortitude 
on  the  part  of  the  pews. 

Is  it  any  wonder,  then,  that  church  committees,  com- 
posed of  men  actively  eng-aged  with  their  own  affairs,  should 
cast  aside  all  sentiment  and  look  at  religious  matters  from 
their  practical  point  of  view?  To  a  business  man  and  his 
way  of  thinking,  it  was  a  plain  proposition:  it  is  better  by 
far  to  have  four  people  who  can  sing  well,  than  fifteen  or 
twenty  who  cannot.  If,  to  bring  about  this  result,  it  cost 
a  little  money,  it  was  no  matter.  So  the  congregations  in 
1857  were  calling  for  a  new  order  of  affairs  in  the  choir 
gallery;  they  demanded  better  discipline  and  better  sing- 
ing. Thus  the  old  time  volunteers  were  summarily  sent 
to  the  rear,  and  the  field  was  left  to  the  regulars. 

As  to  church  organs,  as  nearly  as  I  can  learn,  St. 
James'  Church  was  the  first  in  Chicago  to  have  an  organ. 

"The  first  organ  in  St.  James'  Church,"  Mr.  C.  R. 
Larrabee^  writes  to  me,  "must  have  been  built  in  1838, 
probably  by  Henry  Erben.^     In  1857  we  contracted  with 


'Mr.  Charles  Rollin  Larrabee,  for  nearly  fifty  years  identified  with  St.  James' 
Episcopal  Church,  was  born  at  Ticonderog-a,  N,  Y.,  February  17,  1825;  came  to  Chicagro 
in  1844;  died  June  3, 1899. 

=Mr.  Henry  Erben  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  1799,  and  died  there  in  May, 
18SS.  When  a  young-  man  he  served  as  a  workman  in  the  factory  of  Mr.  Thomas  Hall, 
an  Eng-lish  organ  builder;  in  1824  he  began  business  for  himself  in  New  York  City.  Mr. 
Erben's  son,  Rear  Admiral  Henry  Erben,  U.  S.  N.,  in  a  letter  of  October  6,  1899,  says: 
"  My  father  was  one  of  the  first  to  build  church  organs  in  America.  These  instruments 
can  be  found,  monuments  of  his  skiU,  from  Montreal  to  Cuba.  My  brother  followed  him. 
in  business,  but  he  died  and  the  concern  is  not  now  in  existence." 


114  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

Hall  &  Labag-h,  of  New  York,  for  an  organ  for  our  new 
church,  which  was  delivered  in  due  time.  My  recollection 
is  that  it  had  thirty  stops  and  two  manuals.  Mr.  C.  B. 
Nelson,  for  3^our  society,  contracted  at  the  same  time  for 
a  larg-er  instrument." 

When  Mr.  Dudley  Buck  came  to  Chicag-o  as  organist 
of  St.  James'  a  three-manual  organ  was  built  (1870)  for  the 
church  by  Mr.  Vv".  A.  Johnson,  of  Westfield,  Mass.  The 
Hall  &  Labagh  organ  was  sold  to  the  Church  of  the  Epiph- 
any, of  Chicago,  and  in  1892  was  rebuilt  by  Farrand  & 
Votey,  of  Detroit. 

The  First  Unitarian  Church,  then  at  the  northwest 
corner  of  Washington  and  Dearborn  Streets,  had  a  one- 
manual  organ  with  ten  speaking  slops,  built  by  Jardine  & 
Son,  of  New  York,  in  1850.  This  firm,  in  1858,  also  fur- 
nished a  two-manual  instrument  for  the  Third  Presby- 
terian Church,  then  on  West  Washington  Street. 

St.  Mary's  Catholic  Church,  at  the  southwest  corner 
of  Wabash  Avenue  and  Madison  Street,  bad  a  one-manual 
organ,  built  early  in  the  "fifties." 

Dr.  Patton's  church,  the  First  Congregational,  then  at 
the  corner  of  West  Washington  and  Green  Streets,  had  a 
two-manual  organ. 

Under  April  1, 1865,  I  find  in  my  diary  : 

Visited  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church  this  morning. 
The  organ  is  a  fine  one  ;  has  forty-six  stops,  three  banks 
of  keys  and  two  octaves  of  pedal. 

This  organ  was  set  up  in  September,  1854,  by  An- 
drews &  Son,  of  Utica,  N.  Y.,  in  the  Second  or  "Spotted 
Church,"  then  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Wabash  Avenue 
and  Washington  Street.  Mr.  George  N.  Andrews,  the 
son,  removed  in  1886  to  Oakland,  Cal.,  where  he  continues 
the  business  of  organ  manufacturing. 

The  first  organ  constructed  for  Chicago  by  the  well 
known  builder,  Mr.  W.  A.  Johnson,  of  Westfield,  Mass., 
was  a  two-manual  instrument  in  the  Wabash  Avenue  M.  E. 
Church,atthenorthwestcorner  of  Wabash  Avenueand  Har- 
rison Street.  This  church  VN^as  commenced  July  13,  1857, 
and  finished  and  dedicated  (organ  and  all)  July  15,  1858. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  115 

The  best  org-an  in  Chicag-o  in  1857,  and  the  one  most 
used  for  concert  purposes,  was  in  St.  Paul's  Universalist 
Church,  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Wabash  Avenue  and 
Van  Buren  Street.  The  instrument  was  built  by  Mr. 
Henry  Erben  in  1855-56.  It  stood  at  the  east  end  of 
the  church,  had  three  manuals,  and  with  its  elaborate 
case,  made  an  imposing-  appearance. 

The  first  org-an  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  was 
built  by  Hall  &  Labagh,  of  New  York  City,  for  the  edifice 
on  Wabash  Avenue,  and  v/as  completed  and  in  readiness 
for  the  dedication  of  the  church  October  15,  1859.  The 
instrument  had  three  manuals  and  thirty-eight  stops. 

Messrs.  E.  &  G.  G.  Hook,  of  Boston,  were  not  repre- 
sented in  Chicag-o  until  1862,  v.'hen  they  built  an  org-an  with 
two  manuals  and  tvv^enty-eight  stops,  for  the  New  England 
Cong-reg-ational  Church. 

There  were  not  many  org-anists  in  Chicag-o  in  1856  — 
if  the  word  org-anist  means  a  musician  who  is  familiar  with 
the  mechanism  and  capabilities  of  the  instrument,  and  has 
the  musical  education  to  exploit  its  possibilities. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Currie,  an  Eng-lish  organist,  came  here  in 
1855,  and  was  engaged  in  St.  Paul's  Universalist  Church, 
remaining  there  until  the  beginning  of  the  war.  *'His 
style  was  that  of  the  English  cathedral  organist,"  says  Mr. 
A.  W.  Dohn.  "  He  was  a  good  musician  and  a  reliable 
player."  Mr.  Currie  was  succeeded  at  St.  Paul's  by  his 
pupil,  Miss  Sarah  Tillinghast,  daughter  of  Mr.  W.  A.  Til- 
linghast,  then  teacher  of  music  in  the  public  schools.  Miss 
Tillinghast  afterward  married  Mr.  A.  O.  Frohock,  and  re- 
moved to  Boston,  where  she  was  well  known  as  teacher  and 
organist,  and  gave  recitals  for  several  seasons  on  the  great 
organ  in  the  Boston  Music  Hall.  The  successors  of  Mrs. 
Frohock  at  St.  Paul's  Church  were  Mr.  Charles  Ansorge, 
Mr.  Adolph  Baumbach  and  Mr.  G.  C.  Knopfel. 

Mr.  Ansorge  came  to  Chicago  in  1860-62,  and  for  some 
years  was  instructor  of  music  in  the  Chicago  High  School. 
He  was  a  man  of  letters,  a  graduate  of  a  German  univer- 
sity, and  a  good  musician.  He  was  the  first  to  tell  me  of 
Handel's   "Messiah."     Mr.  Ansorge  died    of  cholera  in 


116  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

September,  1866,  on  a  Sunday  afternoon  after  having-  played 
at  his  church  in  the  morning-  as  usual. 

Mr.  Baumbach,  well  known  as  the  author  of  a  collec- 
tion of  church  music  entitled  "Baumbach's  Sacred  Mo- 
tettes,"came  to  Chicag-o  in  1863,  and  succeeded  Mr.  Ansorg-e 
at  St.  Paul's  Universalist  Church.  I  think  he  went  from 
St.  Paul's  to  the  New  England  Congregational  Church,  and 
that  he  remained  there  two  or  three  years;  afterward  he 
became  org-anist  of  Grace  Episcopal  Church,  beginning  his 
work  at  the  consecration  of  the  present  edifice  on  Wabash 
Avenue,  near  Fourteenth  Street,  Easter  Day,  1869.  Mr. 
Baumbach  continued  at  Grace  Church  until  his  death  in 
Chicago,  April  3,  1880. 

When  I  first  knew  Mr.  Knopfel  (1864)  he  was  engaged 
in  business  and  had  been  in  Chicago  a  year  or  two.  He 
first  played  at  St.  Paul's  Universalist  Church,  and  after- 
ward at  Trinity  and  St.  James'  Episcopal  Churches. 
After  the  fire  of  1871  he  was  engaged  at  the  Immanuel 
Baptist  Church  on  Michigan  Avenue. 

The  first  organist  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
was  Mr.  Thomas  Crouch  (1854-56).  His  successor 
was  Mr.  H.  W.  Chant,  afterward  of  the  firm  of  Pilcher 
Bros.  &  Chant,  organ  builders.  In  reply  to  my  inquiry 
about  Mr.  Chant,  I  have  this  letter  from  Henry  Pilcher's 
Sons,  now  of  Louisville,  Ky.,  successors  to  Pilcher  Bros.: 

Louisville,  Ky.,  June  16,  1899. 

Mr.  Chant  was  associated  with  the  firm  from  March, 
1864,  to  February,  1866.  They  built  the  organ  in  the 
North  Presbyterian  Church;  completed  September  15, 1865. 
We  regret  that  we  cannot  give  any  information  about 
Mr.  Chant.  Some  years  ago  we  heard  of  his  being  in 
Florida,  and  are  under  the  impression  that  he  has  since 
died.  Pilcher  Bros,  left  Chicago  soon  after  the  great  fire 
in  1871. 

Mr.  Chant  introduced  the  first  quartette  choir  in  the 
Second  Church.^ 


1  As  to  the  membership  of  this  quartette  choir,  I  have  the  following-  information: 
the  soprano  was  Mrs.  F.  A.  Thomas,  who  was  afterward  soprano  in  the  First  Church 
in  1865.     She  died  October  31,  1890,  on  the  train  coming-  from  California. 

The  alto  was  Mrs.  Casandana  ("Cassie")  Mattison  [nee  D3-er).  She  was  born  in 
Shaftsbury,  Vt.,  in  the  early  "thirties."  She  was  married  to  Mr.  Robert  Mattison,  of 
the  same  place,  and  the  young-  couple  came  to  Aurora,  111.,  in  1S54.  Mr.  Mattison  en- 
tered the  employ  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &   Quincy  Railroad  Co.  and  they  soon 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  117 

Mr.  Charles  A.  Havens  followed  Mr.  Chant  as  organist 
of  the  Second  Church,  and  was  succeeded  by  Mr.  Daniel 
N.  Hood,  who  resig-ned  in  1881,  and  is  now  organist  of  the 
First  Church,  of  Woburn,  Mass.  Mr.  Havens  returned 
to  the  Second  Church  in  1882,  remaining  until  1890,  when 
he  was  succeeded,  December  1,  1890,  by  the  present 
organist,  Mr.  A.  F.  McCarrell. 

One  of  the  early  organists  was  Mr.  Emil  Rein,  who 
came  here  in  1855,  as  teacher  of  piano,  church  organist  and 
conductor  of  a  German  singing  society.  He  played  for  a 
time  at  Trinity  Episcopal  Church,^  St.  James'  Episcopal 
Church,  and  last  at  the  Church  of  the  Messiah.  He  died 
in  this  city  in  1884. 

Mr.  Theodore  S.  Payne  was  organist  of  St.  James' 
Episcopal  Church  in  1857,  when  Mrs.  Emma  G.  Bostwick^ 
came  out  from  New  York  City  to  take  a  position  in  the 

moved  to  Chicag-o.  Mrs.  Mattison  possessed  an  alto  voice  of  phenomenal  rang-e  and 
qualit}',  and  strong-  musical  temperament,  and  through  her  cousin,  Mr.  W.  A.  Tilling- 
hast,  soon  took  a  commanding  position  among  the  public  singers  of  Chicago.  She  was 
engaged  for  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  where  she  remained  till  1861.  She  then 
joined  the  choir  of  Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  but  returned  to  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  in  1865,  remaining  there  until  1869,  when  she  went  to  Melbourne,  Australia. 
She  was  a  member  of  the  choir  in  St.  James'  Catholic  Church  in  Melbourne,  and  was  well 
known  as  a  concert  singer  in  that  city  and  in  Sydney,  appearintj^  often  with  Arabella 
Godard,  Carreno  and  other  artists.  She  returned  to  Chicag-o  and  sang  at  a  concert  of 
the  Mozart  Club  in  Central  Music  Hall,  May  12,  1885.  Her  voice  was  considerably  im- 
paired at  this  time,  and  this  was  her  last  appearance  in  public.  Her  death  occurred 
July  16,  1897,  in  Oshkosh,  Wis. 

Mr.  Charles  H.  Seavems  was  the  tenor  of  the  quartette,  and  was  well  thought  of. 
He  died  March  22,  1871,  in  Chicago. 

The  bass  was  Mr.  Harry  Johnson,  who  remained  with  the  choir  until  he  removed 
to  New  York  Cit}',  where  he  is  now  living. 

'The  corner  stone  of  Trinity  Church,  on  Madison  Street,  was  laid  on  Wednesday, 
June  5,  1844.  The  first  services  were  held  August  25,  1844.  The  edifice  on  Jackson 
Street  was  consecrated  June  16, 1861.  A  lady,  now  residing  in  the  East,  who  was  a  member 
of  the  choir  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  early  in  the  "  forties,"  and  afterward  sang- 
in  the  choir  of  Trinity  Church,  answered  my  inquiry  as  to  the  organ  of  that  church: 

"  About  Trinity  Church  my  memory  is  more  distinct,  as  I  became  a  member  of 
it  in  1847,  under  Bishop  Philander  Chase,  Rev.  W.  W.  Walker  being  the  first  rector. 
The  choir  in  the  new  wooden  church  on  Madison  Street  was  in  a  gallery  over  the 
entrance,  and  was  conducted  by  George  Davis,  Esq.,  a  fine  tenor  singer.  Among  the 
volunteers  were  C.  Rollin  Larrabee,  Miss  Dix,  Miss  Haight  and  m3'self.  There  was 
neither  organ  nor  any  other  instrument  in  the  first  years  of  Trinity  Church,  but  about 
1S49  the  place  of  the  choir  was  changed  to  the  back  of  the  church,  and  a  small  organ 
was  put  in,  with  a  single  bank  of  keys." 

''Mrs.  Emma  Gillingham  Bostwick,  the  best  soprano  soloist  of  her  day  in  Chicago 
was  born  in  Philadelphia.  She  commenced  her  career  at  an  early  age,  appearing  at  a 
concert  of  the  Handel  and  Haj'dn  Society  in  Boston  in  1828, when  she  was  hardly  sixteen 
years  old.  In  1836  she  married  Mr.  Charles  J.  Bostwick,  who  died  in  1853.  Mrs.  Bost- 
wick sang  in  concert  at  Niblo's  Garden,  New  York  City,  soon  after  its  opening,  and  in 


118  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

choir  of  that  church.  He  remained  in  St.  James'  Church 
until  1860  or  1861,  and  was  succeeded  by  his  brother,  Mr. 
E.  A.  Payne.  Mr.  Theodore  S.  Payne  then  played  for 
some  years  at  the  Church  of  the  x\scension.  He  died  at 
Oak  Park,  111.,  October  7,  1898. 

Mr.  A.  W.  Dohn  v/as  the  first  org-anist  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  was  born  at  Breslau,  Silesia,  in 
1835.  He  came  to  Chicago  in  the  summer  of  1857,  and  for 
a  few  months  was  org-anist  at  Dr.  Patton's  Church  (First 
Congregational),  going  from  there  to  the  First  Presby- 
terian, Y/here  he  remained  until  the  winter  of  1859-60. 
After  leaving  the  First  Church,  Mr.  Dohn  was  engaged  at 
the  Unitarian  Church  (Rev.  Robert  Collyer's),  and  later 
at  the  Westminster  (Fourth  Presbyterian),  remaining 
there  until  Prof.  Swing  resigned  the  pastorate  of  the 
Fourth  Church  to  commence  (1879)  his  new  work  in  Cen- 
tral Music  Hall.  Mr.  Dohn  organized  the  Mendelssohn 
Society  in  1857,  and  conducted  the  concerts  of  the  Apollo 
Musical  Club  during  its  first  two  seasons  (1872-74). 

A  few  weeks  after  the  dedication  of  the  First  Presby- 
teria,n  Church  on  Wabash  Avenue  (October  15, 1857),  Mr.  A. 
W.  Dohn  vv^as  appointed  organist,  and  the  first  quartette 
choir  in  the  history  of  the  church  was  engaged — Mr.  and 
Mrs.  S.  M.  Fassett  (T.  and  S.),  Miss  Elizabeth  Boy  den 
(A.)  and  Mr.  J.  T.  Jewett  (B.). 

Mr.  Dohn,  during  his  two  years  of  service,  although 
the  choir  was  in  the  immediate  charg-e  of  Mr.  Fassett, 
interested  himself  much  in  its  affairs  and  was  occasionally 
assisted  at  the  Sunday  services  by  members  of  the  Men- 
delssohn Society,  of  which  he  vv^as  then  (1857)  conductor, 
in  selections  from  Mendelssohn's  "St.  Paul"  and  "Hymn 
of  Praise."     This  class  of  music,  however,  did  not  prove 

1853  she  appeared  with  the  New  York  Philharmonic  Sodetj'.  In  the  autumn  of  1857 
Mrs.  Bostwick  came  to  Chicago  to  take  a  position  in  the  choir  of  St.  James'  Church, 
remaining-  there  several  j'ears  until  a  new  choir  was  oru-anized  for  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church,  then  on  Jackson  Street,  when  Dr.  Cummin<Ts  was  its  rector.  The  other  mem- 
bers of  this  choir  were  Mrs.  Cassie  Mattison  (A.),  Mr.  Charles  H.  Seaverns  (T.)  and 
Mr.  Jules  G.  Lombard  (B.).  Mrs.  Bostwick  sang-  on  a  number  of  occasions,  in  the 
Church  of  the  Holy  Communion,  a  small  wooden  building-  on  the  east  side  of  Wabash 
Avenue,  south  of  Lake  Street,  when  Rev.  John  Sebastian  Bach  Hodges  was  rector  and 
Miss  Faustina  Hasse  Hodg-es  had  charg-e  of  the  music.  After  her  return  in  1S66  to  the 
East,  Mrs.  Bostwick  resided  in  New  York  City  until  1870,  when  she  removed  to  Morris- 
town,  N.  J.,  residing-  there  until  her  death,  December  31,  1894,  aged  eig-hty-one. 


MR.  HORACE  GRANT   BIRD. 


A   CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  II9 

altog-ether  acceptable  to  some  of  the  congreg-ation,  and  the 
performance  on  one  occasion  of  the  chorus,  "  How  Lovely- 
Are  the  Messeng-ers"  ("St.  Paul")  threatened  to  sever 
all  relations  betvsreeu  org-anist  and  music  committee. 

Mr.  Dohn's  successor,  Mr.  Horace  G.  Bird,^  came  to 
Chicag-o  in  October,  1859,  and  began  his  duties  at  the  First 
Church  in  the  spring  of  1860,  continuing-  in  the  service  of 
the  church  about  nine  years,  or  at  least  until  after  Dr. 
Mitchell  began  his  pastorate  in  1868.  It  is  impossible  to 
determine  the  exact  period  of  service  of  any  member  of 
the  choir  prior  to  1871,  owing  to  the  destruction,  in  the 
g-reat  fire,  of  all  the  treasurer's  books.  After  some  re- 
search I  have  ascertained  the  names  of  all  who  Vt^ere  iden- 
tified with  the  music  of  the  church  foran)'-  length  of  time, 
between  the  years  1860  and  1871.  A  former  member  of  the 
choir  writes : 

In  1865  the  members  of  the  choir  were  Mrs.  F.  A. 
Thomas  (S.),  Miss  Lizzie  Farrell  (A.),  Mr.  Edward 
Schultze=  (T.),  Mr.  Thomas  G.  Goodwillie^  (B.)  and  Mr. 
Nicholas  Cawthorne  (O.),  Mr.  Bird  having-  resigned. 

I  remember  Mr.  Cawthorne  perfectly,  and  that  he 
played  at  the  First  Church  at  one  time,  but  until  I  received 
the  above  letter  I  had  always  supposed  Mr.  Bird's  eng-age- 
ment  was  a  continuous  one,  and  that  Mr.  Cawthorne  suc- 
ceeded him  in  1868  or  1869.  Mr.  Cawthorne  was  for  a  time 
director  of  music  in  the  Western  Female  College  of  Evans- 
ton.  He  lost  one  of  his  leg-s  in  early  life,  and  for  one  so 
terribly  maimed,  it  was  extraordinary  that  he  could  man- 
age the  pedal  organ  and  couplers  at  all. 

'Mr.  Horace  Grant  Bird  was  born  September  3,  1837,  at  Watertown,  Mass.  After 
his  marriag-e  in  1858  he  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  residing-  there  one  year,  teaching- 
the  voice  and  piano,  and  filling-  a  church  position  as  org-anist.  For  some  time  after  his 
arrival  in  Chicag-o  he  was  tenor  in  the  choir  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church,  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  H.  W.  Chant.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bird  were  received  into  the  member- 
ship of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  June  27,  1864.  Mr.  Bird  remained  with  the  First 
Church  about  nine  years.  He  was  afterwards  org-anist  at  the  Olivet  Presbyterian, 
Church  of  the  Messiah  and  Trinity  Episcopal,  Trinity  Methodist,  Christ  Reformed 
Episcopal  and  Plymouth  Congreg-ational  Churches.  Mr.  Bird  died  in  Chicago  April  7, 
1897.  His  widow,  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Allan  Wilde,  a  sister.  Miss  Susan  Bird,  two  broth- 
ers, Mr.  Charles  W.  and  Mr.  James  F.  Bird,  now  living-  in  Chicago,  and  a  brother,  Mr. 
Arthur  Bird,  an  able  writer  for  the  voice,  piano  and  orchestra,  now  living  in  Berlin,  sur- 
vive him. 

'Mr.  Edward  Schultze  is  now  living  in  New  York  City. 

^Mr.  Goodwillie  died  in  Chicago  April  3,  1896,  aged  fifty-eight.  He  had  been  a 
resident  of  Chicago  for  nearly  forty  j^ears. 


120  A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

Other  members  of  the  choir  during-  the  period  from 
1860  to  1869  were  : 

Sopranos  :  Mrs.  S.  M.  Fassett  and  Miss  Fannie  A. 
Root. 

Altos  :  Miss  Frances  Silvey,  now  Mrs.  Alexander  P. 
Moore,  mother  of  Mr.  Francis  S.  Moore,  the  present  or- 
g-anist;  Miss  Susan  Bird,  sister  of  Mr.  Horace  G.  Bird; 
Miss  Eliza  Davis  (afterward  Mrs.  L.  M.  Prentiss), 
daug-hter  of  Mr.  Georg-e  Davis,  a  singer  and  choir  leader 
in  early  days  in  Chicago. 

Tenors:  Mr.  E.  Ward,  Mr.  S.  M.  Fassett,  Mr. 
Lewis  M.  Prentiss,  one  of  the  first  members  of  the  Apollo 
Musical  Club  and  for  some  years  a  member  of  its  Board  of 
Management;    died  in  Chicago,  December  6,  1896. 

Basses :  Mr.  Jules  G.  Lombard,  now  residing*  in 
Omaha,  Neb.;  Mr.  W.  N.  Smith,  now  living-  at  South  River, 
Md.  His  daughter,  Miss  Eleanor  Smith,  is  a  successful 
v/riter  of  song-s. 

The  choir  in  November,  1868,  when  Dr.  Mitchell  be- 
g-an  his  pastorate,  Vv'as  a  quartette  under  the  direction  of 
Mr.  Horace  G.  Bird,  but  a  few  months  later  a  chorus  was 
substituted,  directed  by  Mr.  J.  W.  Adams.  Two  leaders 
cannot  work  together  in  any  choir,  and  it  proved  so  in  this 
case,  for  Mr.  Bird  soon  resigned  to  accept  a  position  in  the 
Olivet  Presbyterian  Church. 

From  1869  to  October,  1871,  the  org-anists  succeeding 
Mr.  Bird  were  Mr.  Frank  T.  Baird%  Dr.  Louis  Falk^  and 
Dr.  J.  E.  Gilman.3 


1  Mr.  Baird  was  bom  in  Worcester,  Mass.,  where  he  beg^an  his  musical  career, 
first  studying-  the  org-an  with  B.  D.  Allen.  While  yet  a  boy,  he  came  to  Chicag-o,  and 
continued  the  study  of  the  org-an,  and  also  took  up  composition  with  Dudley  Buck.  He 
later  reviewed  his  orgfan  studies  with  Clarence  Eddy,  His  most  noted  piano  teachers 
were  Alfred  Pease  and  Emil  Liebling-.  Mr.  Baird  was  appointed  org-anist  of  the  Third 
Presbyterian  Church  May  1,  1850,  continuing  with  this  church  until  1892.  He  resides  in 
Chicas^o,  r.nd  is  well  known  as  a  teacher  of  vocal  music. 

*Dr.  Louis  Falk  came  to  Chicago  in  1802,  when  he  was  fourteen  years  old.  He  was 
organist  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Name  from  1863  to  1865.  In  the  autumn  of  1865  he 
went  to  Cassel,  German}',  for  a  course  of  study  with  Dr.  Wilham  Volckmar,  afterward  to 
Leipzig-,  where  he  remained  two  years  in  the  conservatory.  On  his  return  to  Chicag-o  in 
1869,  he  was  appointed  organist  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Cliurch,  relinquishing-  the 
position  in  the  spring  of  1870  to  take  charge  of  the  music  at  Unity  Church,  of  which  Rev. 
Robert  Collyei",  D.D.,  was  then  pastor.  This  church  was  destroyed  in  the  great  Chi- 
cago fire,  and  in  December,  1871,  he  secured  the  position  at  the  Union  Park  Cong-reg-a- 
tional  Church,  remaining  there  just  twenty-five  years.  Since  1897  he  has  been  org-anist 
at  the  First  Congregational  Church,  Oak  Park,  111. 

^Dr.  J.  E.  Oilman  is  a  practicing-  physician  in  Chicag-o,  but  has  found  time  to 
give  to  the  study  of  music  and  the  organ. 


MR.  AUGUSTUS  GOULD  DOWNS. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  121 

On  the  resig-natlon  of  Mr.  Adams,  the  choir  was  ag-ain 
placed  in  the  care  of  Mr.  S.  M.  Fassett.  On'the  nig-ht  of  the 
great  fire,  October  8, 1871,  services  were  held  in  the  church 
as  usual,  conducted  by  Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  assisted 
by  a  chorus  choir,  of  which  the  principal  members  were,  as 
far  as  now  known,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  M.  Fassett  and  Mr. 
John  R.  Rickey  (T.).^     Dr.  J.  E.  Oilman  was  organist. 

I  now  present  a  short  retrospect  of  the  choir  leaders 
of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  prior  to  1857: 

Mr.  Seth  Porter  Warner  was  received  into  the  mem- 
bership of  this  church  September  13,  1838,  and  led  the 
choir  for  several  years  thereafter.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Warner 
were  dismissed  by  letter  to  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  March  2,  1853.  Mr.  Warner  was  a  member  of  the 
choir  of  that  church  for  some  years.  Warner's  Hall,  which 
stood,  before  the  great  fire,  on  Randolph  Street,  east  of 
Clark  Street,  was  named  for  him.  Mr.  Warner  died  in 
Chicago,  June  12,  1892,  ag-ed  eighty-three  years. 

Mr.  Elisha  Clark  became  a  member  of  the  Session  in 
1846  and  led  the  choir  in  1850.  His  business  was  that  of 
a  furniture  dealer  ;  he  was  among-  the  first  to  introduce 
machinery  for  the  manufacture  of  furniture.  Mr.  Clark 
died  in  Chicag-o,  July  23, 1853.  His  son.  Rev.  William  Willis 
Clark,  is  now  secretary  of  the  International  Sunday  Observ- 
ance Leag-ue. 

Mr.  Augustus  Gould  Downs  led  the  choir  in  1841.  He 
was  a  merchant  in  the  early  days  of  the  city,  vv^as  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  church  in  1855,  and  occupied 
other  important  offices,  in  his  lifetime.  Mr.  Downs  died  in 
Chicago,  October  25,  1878.  His  son,  Augustus  H.  Downs, 
has  now  the  violoncello  played  by  his  father  in  the  choir. 

Dr.  Warren  N.  Dunham  (T.),  who  led  the  choir  at  the 
dedication  of  the  "Brick  Church"  in  September,  1849,  was 
afterward  a  member  of  the  quartette  in  St.  James'  Episco- 
pal Church  with  Mrs.  Bostwick  (S.).  In  1862,  during  the 
time  of  Bishop  Duggan,  he  had  charge  of  the  music  in  St. 
Mary's  Catholic  Church,  H.  P.  Danks,  the  composer,  being 
the  bass  soloist  in  this  choir.  Dr.  Dunham  organized  a 
quartette  choir  for  Calvary  Presbyterian  Church  in  1863. 
He  is  now  the  pastor  of  the  South  Congregational  Church  of 
Cheyenne,  Wyo.  In  a  letter  of  August  11, 1899,  he  writes: 
"I  shall  be  seventy-seven  years  old  on  the  20th  of  Novem- 
ber next,  if  I  live.  I  preach  twice  every  Sunday  and  take 
part  in  the  Sunday  School." 

'Mr.  John  R.  Rickey  died  in  Chicag-o  in  ISSf. 


122  ^  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS. 

Mr.  Samuel  Montag-ue  Fassett. — Mr.  and  Mrs.Fassett^ 
came  to  Cbicag-o  from  Galena,  111.,  in  1854,  Mr.  Fassett  open- 
ing- a  photographer's  studio  at  the  corner  of  Lake  and 
Clark  Streets.  They  were  received  into  the  membership 
of  the  church  January  4, 1856.  The  musical  interest  of  the 
congregation  centered  largely  in  them  at  the  time,  espe- 
cially in  Mrs.  Fassett,  who  was  very  popular.  In  1871  Mr. 
Fassett  had  one  of  the  most  complete  photographic  estab- 
lishments in  this  country  at  the  corner  of  Wabash  Avenue 
and  Van  Buren  Street.  Though  he  lost  everything  in  the 
fire  of  that  year,  he  started  again  in  a  small  building-  on 
Wabash  Avenue,  south  of  Eldridge  Court.  But  the  fire  of 
1873  causing  him  another  loss,  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  Washington,  D.  C,  opening-  there  a  studio  which  was 
famous  for  the  celebrities  who  made  it  their  headquarters. 
The  failure  of  a  bank  in  that  city  brought  more  losses  and 
obliged  Mr.  Fassett  to  give  up  his  profession  entirely  for 
some  years.  In  1889  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Harrison  g-overnraent  photographer.  Mr.  Fassett  re- 
sides in  Chicag-o. 

SURVIVING   MEMBERS   OF    THE    CHOIR   PRIOR   TO    1857. 

Miss  Sarah  Aiken,  now  Mrs.  William  Saltonstall,  Plain- 
field,  N.  J. 

Miss  Sarah  Brookes. 

Mr.  E.  C.  Cleaver,  double  bass. 

Mr.  James  P.  Root,  member  of  the  choir  from  1854 
to  1860. 

Mrs.  Abel  Sidney  Downs. 

Miss  Margarette  Clarkson,  now  Mrs.  Louis  deVilliers 
Hoard,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Zenana  S.  Dickey. 

Miss  Eliza  A.  Johnson,  now  Mrs.  I.  F.  Temple. 

Mrs.  Seth  Porter  Warner. 

Mrs.  Edward  M.  Goodrich. 

Gen. Theodore  F.Brov/n(son  of  Mr.  William  H.Brown). 

OTHER  MEMBERS  WHO  HAVE  AT  ONE  TIME  OR  ANOTHER 
BEEN  CONNECTED  WITH  THE  CHOIR  PREVIOUS  TO  1857. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brayton  Aiken. 

Mr.  Oscar  L.  Beach,  flute,  deceased. 


'  Mrs.  Cornelia  Adele  Fassett  was  born  November  9,  1831,  in  Owasco,  N.  Y. 
When  she  came  to  Chicago  with  her  husband  in  1S54,  she  assisted  him  in  his  work  and 
soon  showed  marked  artistic  talent  herself.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fassett  went  to  Paris  in 
186S,  where  thej'  remained  two  years,  Mrs.  Fassett  spendinar  this  time  in  serious  study. 
Her  best  piece  of  work  is  the  painting  entitled,  "The  Electoral  Colleje,"  the  property  of 
the  government,  now  hanging  in  the  Capitol,  Mrs.  Fassett  died  in  Washington,  Janu- 
ary 4, 1898. 


MKS.    SAMUEL    MOXTAGUIC   KASSKTT. 


A  CHAPTER  ON  CHOIRS.  123 

Mr.  Bates,  flute,  received  into  the  membership  of  the 
church  March  11,  1841;   deceased. 

Miss  Sarah  Downs,  afterward  Mrs.  Edwin  Moore. 

Mr.  Louis  deVilliers  Hoard,  flute,  member  of  the  firm 
of  Shortall  &  Hoard  (1864  to  1873);  died  at  Ogfdensburg-, 
N.  Y.,  March  4,  1893. 

Mr.  Frank  Hastings,  flute;   deceased. 

Miss  Hoyt,  deceased. 

Mrs.  Harlowe  Kimball,  deceased. 

Mr.  Abel  Sidney  Downs;  died  June  30,  1883. 

Miss  Lans^-don. 

Mr.  Claudius  B.  Nelson,  flute;  died  March  29,  1885. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Elijah  Smith.  Mr.  Smith  died  July 
15,  1879. 

Miss  Eliza  Smith,  afterward  Mrs.  Volney  Turner, 
deceased. 

Miss  Mary  Smith. 

Mrs.  DoUivar  Walker,  deceased. 

Miss  Raymond,  sister  of  Mr.  B.  W.  Raymond,  after- 
ward Mrs.  T.  B.  Carter. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Henry  Wilber.  Mr.  Wilber 
died  December  25, 1887.   Mrs.  Wilber  died  January  21, 1895. 

Mr.  Whitmarsh. 

A  lady,  who  as  a  child  attended  the  church  during-  the 
pastorate  of  Rev.  Flavel  Bascom,  writes  of  the  choir  as  she 

remembers  it: 

July  23,  1899. 
Your  letter  of  July  18,  making-  inquiry  as  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  choir  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of 
Chicag-o,  in  the  "forties,"  is  at  hand.  I  remember  five  out 
of  the  six  names  you  send  me.  I  remember  a  Mr.  Bates, 
who  played  the  flute  with  Mr.  Beach.  The  volunteer 
singers  must  have  numbered  as  many  as  twenty  at  differ- 
ent times.  Mr.  Oscar  L.  Beach  married  a  Miss  Ely,  of 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  died  earl}^  of 
consumption,  and  were  buried  there.  Mr.  Frank  Hasting-s 
has  been  dead  for  some  time. 


124  GREAT  ORGANS  OF  THE  WORLD. 


GREAT  ORGANS  OF  THE  WORLD. 

Now  that  Chicag-o  has  one  of  the  great  org-ans  of  the 
world,  some  statistics  about  other  larg-e  org-ans  may  be  of 
interest. 

The  four  larg-est  in  the  world  are: 

(1)  Town  Hall,  Sydney,  Australia. — Built  by  Will- 
iam Hill  &  Son,  of  London  (1889);  five  manuals  and  126 
speaking"  stops.  Three  years  were  required  for  its  con- 
struction, and  the  cost  was  ^15,000  ($75,000.) 

(2)  Cathedral,  Riga,  Russia. — Built  by  Walcker  & 
Son  (1883);  four  manuals  and  124  speaking-  stops. 

(3)  Royal  Albert  Hall,  London. — Built  by  Henry 
Willis,  of  London  (1870);  four  manuals  and  111  speaking- 
stops. 

(4)  Auditorium,  Chicago. — Built  by  Roosevelt^  (1889) ; 
four  manuals  and  109  speaking-  stops. 

There  is  a  larg-e  org-an  in  the  Cathedral  of  the  Incar- 
nation at  Garden  City,  L.  I.,  built  by  Roosevelt  (1879-83), 
having  five  distinct  divisions,  placed  in  different  parts  of 
the  cathedral:  chancel  (two  divisions),  tower  (with  separ- 
ate keyboard,  two  manuals),  solo  (in  tower),  echo  or 
"  ang-els' choir  "  in  the  ceiling-  of  nave,  and  chapel  (with 
separate  keyboard,  two  manuals)  in  the  crypt.  It  was  the 
intention  of  the  builder  that  all  divisions  could  be  played 
from  a  four-manual  keyboard  in  the  chancel  by  electric 
action,  but  the  results  have  not  been  satisfactory.  The 
chancel  and  chapel  org-ans  only  are  used  now;  the  others 
are  disconnected.  There  are  115  speaking-  stops  if  all  the 
divisions  are  in  use. 

The  four  larg-est  church  organs  in  the  United  States 
are  as  follows : 

(1)     St.  Bartholomew's,  New  York  City. — Built  by 


Mr.  Hilbonie  Lewis  Roosevelt  died  iu  New  York  City  on  December  30,  18S6. 


NAME-PLATES  OF  ORGAN  BUILDERS. 


GREAT  ORGANS  OF  THE  WORLD.  125 

Hutching-s,  of  Boston  (1896);  four  manuals   and    ninety- 
eight  speaking-  stops. 

(2)  Calvary  Church,  New  York  City. — Built  by 
Roosevelt  (1888);  four  manuals  and  eig-hty-four  speaking- 
stops. 

(3)  St.  Luke's  Epiphany  Church,  Philadelphia. 
— Built  by  Jardine  &  Son,  of  New  York  (1899),  consisting- 
of  a  chancel  and  g-allery  division,  played  from  a  sing-le 
keyboard  in  the  chancel,  with  three  manuals  and  eighty- 
three  speaking-  stops. 

(4)  St.  Ignatius  (Jesuit)  Church,  San  Francisco. — 
Built  by  Farrand  &  Votey,  of  Detroit  (1895);  four  manu- 
als and  eig-hty-one  speaking-  stops. 

The  two  larg-est  church  org-ans  in  Chicag-o  are: 

(1)  Church  of  the  Holy  Family  (Jesuit). — Built  by 
Mitchell  &  Son,  of  Montreal  (1869);  rebuilt  by  Roosevelt 
(1892);  three  manuals  and  sixty-four  speaking-  stops. 

(2)  Union  Park  Congregational  Church. — Built  by 
Hook  &  Hasting-s,  of  Boston  (1871);  three  manuals  and 
forty-eight  speaking  stops. 


126  PSALMODY,  TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 


PSALMODY,  TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

We  cannot  conclude  this  retrospect  of  the  character  of 
church  music  fifty  years  ag"o  without  a  consideration  of  the 
works  used  by  choirs  at  that  time.  As  late  as  1870  the  en- 
tire library  of  the  average  choir  in  this  country  consisted 
of  two  or  three  sets  of  tune  and  anthem  books  and  collec- 
tions of  sacred  music,  and  was  only  replenished  when  the 
copies  became  worn  or  a  new  book  was  announced.  In  this 
respect,  how  richly  blessed  are  the  choirs  at  the  present 
time !  The  works  of  Atwood,  Goss,'Barnby,  Bennett,  Dykes, 
Foster,  Garrett,  Hopkins,  Sullivan,  Tours,  John  E.  West, 
among"  Eng-lish,  and  of  Buck,  Chadwick,  Foote,  Horatio  W. 
Parker,  Shelle}^  S.  B.  Whitney,  among-  American  writers 
(all  to  be  had  in  cheap  octavo  form),  make  the  work  of  the 
choir  room  g-rateful  and  instructive,  and  add  dig-nity  to  the 
Sabbath  services.  The  first  publisher  of  octavo  music  at 
cheap  prices  was  Alfred  Novello.  In  August,  1852,  he 
opened  a  branch  of  his  London  publishing  house  at  389 
Broadway,  New  York  City,  to  meet  the  increasing  demand 
in  this  country  for  cheap  editions  of  the  standard  oratorios 
and  English  church  music ;  but  it  was  fully  twenty  years 
before  musicians  in  the  West  realized  the  worth  and  con- 
venience of  his  publications.  American  publishers  began 
to  issue  single  pieces  of  church  music  about  the  same  time, 
but  in  folio  form.  George  W.  Warren's  anthem,  "Look  to 
Jesus,"  published  by  W.  A.  Pond  &  Co.,  New  York  City, 
in  1853,  and  his  anthem,  "Come,  Holy  Spirit,"  Ditson  &  Co., 
1854,  were  among  the  earliest  pieces  for  choir  use  brought 
out  by  any  American  publisher.  A  setting  of  the  hymn, 
"Rock  of  Ages,"  by  the  same  author,  appeared  in  1862, 
and  had  a  great  sale  with  quartette  choirs.  Oliver  Ditson 
&  Co.  were  among  the  first  to  publish  octavo  music,  but  not 
until  1869.  Here  is  a  list  of  a  few  pieces  which  appeared 
first  in  sheet  form;  some  of  them  are  still  popular  with 
choirs : 


PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS.  127 

Te  Deum  in  B  Flat.  By  J.  R.  Thomas.  Hall  &  Son, 
New  York,  1859. 

Te  Deum  in  F.  By  J.  Remington  Fairlamb.  Pond  & 
Co.,  New  York,  1862. 

Morning- and  Evening-  Services  for  Choirs  of  Episcopal 
Churches.  By  Harrison  Millard.  Gordon  &  Co.,  New  York, 
1865. 

Matins  and  Evensong-,  as  performed  by  the  choir  of  St. 
Peter's  Church,  Albany,  N.  Y.  By  John  B.  Marsh.  Ditson 
&  Co.,  Boston,  1866. 

Te  Deum  in  F.  By  H.  Kotzchmar.  G.  Schirmer,  New 
York,  1866. 

Morning-  and  Evening-  Services  for  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church.  First  series.  B}''  Dudley  Buck.  G.  Schir- 
mer, New  York,  1868. 

Choir  leaders  for  along-  time,  however,  were  dependent 
for  their  selections  on  the  various  collections  of  tunes, 
chants  and  anthems,  which  were  published  in  this  country 
in  g-reat  numbers,  as  late  almost  as  1880.  The  Lowell 
Mason  collection,  now  in  the  library  of  Yale  Colleg-e,  con- 
tains over  300  different  works  of  this  kind.  Nearly  all 
were  of  a  uniform  shape  (oblong-),  in  order  that  an  entire 
tune,  chant  or  sentence  mig-ht  appear  on  a  sing-le  page 
— a  convenience  for  the  singers,  who  could  not  very  well 
manage  tune  books  and  hymn  books  and  turn  leaves  at  the 
same  time.  Among  the  collections  of  choir  music  having 
the  widest  circulation  were: 

New  England   Psalm   Singer  or  American  Chorister. 
Containing  a  number  of  psalm  tunes,  anthems  and 
canons.     By  William  Billings.     Boston,  1^70. 
William    Billings,  the    founder  of   American    church 

music,  was  born  in  Boston  October  7,  1746.     He  died  in 

Boston,  September  26,  1800. 

The   Boston  Academy   Collection   of  Church  Music. 
Published  under  the  sanction  of  the  Boston  Academy 
of  Music.     Boston,  1835.     New  editions  in  1836,  1837, 
1838,  1840.     Compiled  by  Lowell  Mason. 
Lovs^ell  Mason,  Mus.  Doc,  was  born  at  Medfield,  Mass., 
January  8,  1792.     From  1812  to  1827  he  resided  in  Savan- 
nah, Ga.,  employed  as  a  clerk  in  a  bank,  at  the  same  time 
teaching  and  composing  music  and  conducting  choirs.    He 
removed  to  Boston  in  1827,  and  was  elected  president  and 


128  PSALMODY,    TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

conductor  of  the  Handel  and  Haydn  Society.  The  Uni- 
versity of  the  City  of  New  York  conferred  on  him  the  title 
of  Doctor  of  Music  in  1835.  He  visited  Europe  in  1837. 
His  last  years  were  spent  in  Orang-e,  N.  J.,  where  he  died 
Aug-ust  11,  1872. 

The  Manhattan  Collection  of  Psalm  and  Hymn  Tunes 
AND  Anthems.  Composed  under  the  special  patronage 
of  the  New  York  Academy  of  Sacred  Music,  and 
adapted,  etc.,  with  a  figured  bass  for  the  organ,  by 
Thomas  Hastings.  Ezra  Collier  &  Co.,  New  York, 
1838. 

Thomas  Hastings,  Mus.  Doc,  was  born  in  Washington, 
Litchfield  county,  Conn.,  O'^tober  15,  1784.  He  was  self- 
taught  in  music,  and  at  eighteen  led  the  choir  of  the  village 
church.  Later  his  parents  removed  to  the  interior  of  the 
state  of  New  York.  In  1817  he  went  to  Troy,  remaining 
there  several  years,  organizing-  singing  schools  and  leading- 
choirs.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Albany,  and  later  to 
Utica,  where  he  edited  a  weekly  religious  paper,  the  West- 
ern Recorder.,  which  g-ave  some  space  to  the  interests  of 
church  music.  In  1832  he  removed  to  New  York  City, 
where  he  resided  until  his  death,  always  at  work  for  the 
improvement  of  church  music,  editing  many  collections  for 
the  use  of  choirs,  most  of  the  selections  coming  from  his 
own  pen,  lecturing-  and  writing  continually  for  the  religious 
press.  The  degree  of  Doctor  of  Music  was  conferred  on 
Mr.  Hastings  by  the  University  of  the  City  of  New  York 
in  1858.  His  death  occurred  in  New  York  City  May  15, 
1872. 

The  Modern  Psalmist.  Compiled  by  Lowell  Mason.  Sec- 
ond edition.      Boston,  1840.     Third  edition,  1841. 

Carmina  Sacra.      By  Lowell  Mason.      Boston,  1842. 

The  Modern  Harp,  by  Edward  L.  "White  and  John  Edgar 
Gould  (1822-75).     Ditson  &  Co.,  Boston,  1846. 

The  New  York  Choralist.  A  new  and  copious  collection 
of  psalm  and  hymn  tunes,  adapted  to  all  the  various 
meters  in  g-eneral  use,  with  a  large  variety  of  anthems 
and  set  pieces.  By  Thomas  Hastings  and  William  B. 
Bradbury.     Mark  H.  Newman  &  Co.,  New  York,  1847. 


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The   Mendelssohn  Collection.     By  Thomas   Hasting-s 
and  William  Batchelder  Bradbury,  New  York,  1848. 
The  inside  cover  bears  the  advertisement  of  Grig-gs, 
Bross  &  Co.,  book  dealers,  Chicag-o. 
Mr.  William  Batchelder  Bradbury  w^as  born  in  York, 
Me.,  October  6,  1816.   In  1830  he  removed  to  Boston,  where 
he  studied  with  Lowell  Mason  and  Georg-e  J.  Webb.  He  vis- 
ited Europe  in  1847,  and  studied  with  Moscheles  and  Haupt- 
man.     After  his  return  to  America  in  1849,  he  devoted  the 
rest  of  his  life  to  writing,  teaching"  and  conducting-  musical 
conventions.     Mr.  Bradbury  died  in  Montclair,  N.  J.,  Jan- 
uary 7,  1868. 

Carmina  Sacra.  Published  under  the  sanction  of  the  Boston 
Academy  of  Music,  a  collection  comprising-  the  most 
popular  psalm  and  hymn  tunes  in  g-eneral  use,  tog-ether 
with  a  g-reat  variety  of  new  tunes,  chants,  sentences, 
motettes  and  anthems,  principally  by  disting-uished 
European  composers,  the  whole  constituting  one  of 
the  most  complete  collections  of  church  music  for 
choirs,  etc.  By  Lowell  Mason.     Boston,  1849. 

The  New  Carmina  Sacra.  Published  under  the  sanction 
of  the  Boston  Academy  of  Music,  being  one  of  the  most 
complete  and  popular  collections  of  psalm  and  hymn 
tunes,  anthems,  chants,  sentences,  etc.,  for  choirs, 
congregations,  singing  schools  and  societies,  ever  pub- 
lished. By  Lowell  Mason.  Boston,  1853.  The  inside 
cover  bears  the  advertisement  of  A.  H.  &  C.  Burley, 
publishers,  Chicago. 

The  Shawm.  By  William  Batchelder  Bradbury  and  George 
F.  Root.  New  York,  1853.  The  last  part  of  this  book 
contains  the  cantata,  "Daniel,"  words  by  C.  M.  Cady, 
music  by  George  F.  Root  and  William  Batchelder 
Bradbur3^ 

George  Frederick  Root,  Mus.  Doc,  was  born  at 
Sheffield,  Mass.,  August  20,  1820.  His  first  studies  were 
carried  on  with  Mr.  George  J.  Webb,  of  Boston.  In 
1844  he  removed  to  New  York  City  to  become  organist  of 
the  Church  of  the  Strangers,  at  the  same  time  teaching, 
composing  and  conducting  musical  conventions.  He  went 
to  Paris  in  1850  for  a  year  of  study.  In  1859  he  removed 
to  Chicago,  and,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Root  &  Cady, 
brought  out  the  war  songs  by  which  he  is  so  well  known. 


130  PSALMODY,    TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

In  1881  the  Chicag-o  University  conferred  on  him  the  title 
of  Doctor  of  Music.  Dr.  Root  died  at  Bailey's  island, 
Me.,  Aug-ust  7,  1895. 

The  Hallelujah.  A  book  for  the  service  of  song-  in  the 
house  of  the  Lord,  containing-  tunes,  chants  and  an- 
thems, both  for  the  choir  and  congreg-ation,  to  which 
is  prefixed  "The  Singing-  School,"  a  manual  for  classes 
in  vocal  music,  etc.;  also  musical  notation  in  a  nut 
shell,  etc.,  by  Lowell  Mason.  Mason  Brothers,  New 
York,  1854. 

An  excellent  book  was  compiled  by  Mr.  Kenry  W. 
Greatores,  org-anist  of  Calvary  Church,  New  York,  en- 
titled : 

A  collection  of  psalm  and  hymn  tunes,  chants,  an- 
thems and  sentences,  original  and  selected  from  the  best 
standard  composers.  Adapted  for  the  use  of  the  Protes- 
tant Episcopal  Church  in  America,  and  for  cong-reg-ations 
of  other  denominations,  as  well  as  for  societies  and  schools. 
Ditson  &  Co.,  Boston,  1851. 

A  sug-g-estion  made  in  the  preface  of  this  v^^ork  is 
worthy  of  careful  consideration  by  pastors  and  cong-reg-a- 
tions. He  recommends:  "  Those  in  favor  of  congregational 
singing-,  to  use  the  same  words  to  the  same  tunes  invari- 
ably, and  in  a  short  time  the  association  between  the  words 
and  the  music  will  enable  the  cong-reg-ation  to  sing-  most  of 
the  tunes."  The  tunes,  "Bemerton"  (C.  M.),  "Grostete" 
(L.  M.),  "Leig-hton"  (S.  M.),  and  "Seymour"  (7's,  ar- 
ranged from  Weber),  now  so  well  known,  were  written  by 
Greatorex  and  first  appeared  in  this  book. 

A  friend  residing-  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  in  answer  to  a 
letter  asking  about  Greatorex,  replies : 

New  Haven,  October  22,  1898. 
Greatorex's  portrait  represents  him  as  a  handsome, 
larg-e  faced  Englishman,  with  bushy  black  beard,  a  man  of 
thirty-five  or  forty.  The  tune  "Seymour"  was  named  for 
an  uncle  of  mine,  who  had  a  remarkable  voice  and  was  bass 
in  Greatorex's  choir  just  sixty  years  ago. 

The  Connecticut  Quarterly^  Vol.  II,  page  156,  gives  fur- 
ther particulars : 

Henry  W.  Greatorex  came  to  the  Center  Church, 
Hartford,  in  1838,  and  remained  two  years.     He  left  the 


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city  for  a  time,  but  returned  to  play  the  org-an  in  St.  John's 
Church,  and  remained  there  several  years.  He  subse- 
quently went  to  Charleston,  S.  C,  where  he  died  (1858). 
He  came  of  a  musical  family.  His  father,  Thomas  Great- 
orex,  was  a  highly  educated  and  prominent  musician;  at 
one  time  org-anist  of  the  Cathedral  at  Carlisle,  and  for 
twenty-seven  years  conductor  of  the  so  called  Ancient 
Concerts  in  London,  after  which  he  was  appointed  to  suc- 
ceed Dr.  Cook  as  org-anist  and  master  of  the  boys  at  West- 
minster Abbey. 

While  reading-  recently  Fov/ler's  "  Life  of  Dr.  John  B. 
Dykes"  (London,  1897),  whose  hymn  tunes  are  now  used  in 
nearly  every  part  of  the  Christian  world,  I  noticed  the 
name  of  Rev.  Edward  Greatorex  appearing-  several  times 
throughout  the  book.  It  occurred  to  me  that  possibly  he 
might  in  some  way  be  related  to  Henry  W.  Greatorex.  In 
response  to  my  inquiry,  I  received  this  letter  : 

Croxdale  Rectory,  Durham,  England, 
March  14,  1899. 

Henry  Wellington  Greatorex  v/as  my  brother,  and  left 
England  when  I  was  a  boy.  I  cannot  verify  the  date,  but 
think  it  was  about  1838-40.  He  had  been  organist  at  St. 
Mary-le-bone  Church  in  London,  and  after  he  left  Eng- 
land we  heard  very  little  of  him  till  his  death  at  New 
Orleans  about  1860.  (?)  He  was  twice  married,  and  left 
several  children.  His  second  wife,  Eliza  Greatorex,  was 
an  accomplished  artist.  I  know  nothing  of  them,  and  sup- 
pose they  are  either  in  the  old  continentor  in  America.  He 
was  born  in  1813,  the  fifth  son.    I  am  the  seventh. 

My  father  was  born  in  1758,  when  George  II  and  Han- 
del v/ere  living.  He  knew  Prince  Charlie  in  Rome,  and 
gave  rise  to  the  royal  pun  of  the  Prince  Regent:  "My 
father  is  Rex,  but  you  are  a  Greater  Rex  (Greatorex)." 
My  father  was  conductor  of  the  Ancient  Concerts,  and  it 
was  on  the  occasion  of  his  having  to  leave  the  dinner  table 
of  the  prince  and  take  his  place  in  the  orchestra  before  the 
king's  arrival,  that  the  pun  was  made.  He  was  F.  R.  S. 
and  F.  L.  S.,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society  and  of  the  Lin- 
na^an  Society.  He  died  at  Hampton,  July  18,  1831,  aged 
seventy-three  5^ears. 

I  am  a  minor  canon  of  Durham,  and  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Dr.  Dykes,  and  am  now  an  old  man  of  seventy- 
six.     I  am  sorry  I  cannot  give  more  details  as  to  my  broth- 


132  PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

er's  life,  but  he  seemed  to  have  disappeared  from  his  fam- 
ily when  he  went  to  the  States. 

I  am  yours  faithfully, 

Edwd.  Greatorex. 
Champlin's    "Cyclopedia   of  Music  and   Musicians" 
(Scribner's  Sons,  1888)   says    Henry  W.  Greatorex  was 
born  at  Burton-on-Trent,  England,  in  1811,  and  died  at 
Charleston,  S.  C,  September  10,  1858. 

Mr.  Henry  Sieg-ling-,  of  Charleston,  under  date  of  June 
28,  1899,  writes : 

Greatorex  was  org-anist  of  St.  Philip's  Church,  the 
Jewish  Synag-ogue  and  the  Catholic  Cathedral ;  died  of  yel- 
low fever. 

Mr.  Thomas  P.  O'Neale,  also  of  Charleston,  says  : 
Your  favor  of  July  1,  1899,  was  duly  received.  I  re- 
gret that  my  memory  refuses  to  be  refreshed  about  Prof. 
Greatorex.  I  did  not  know  him  intimately,  but  have  heard 
him  play  at  St.  Philip's.  He  died  of  yellow  fever,  Septem- 
ber 10,  1858,  as  you  have  it.  He  had  a  magnificent  bass 
voice  ;  his  organ  performance  was  simply  grand.  He  was 
buried  in  St.  Philip's  Church  Cemetery,  directly  opposite 
the  church. 

When  it  became  evident  that  congregations  preferred 
the  quartette  to  the  volunteer  chorus  choir,  other  books 
appeared  which  were  better  adapted  to  the  new  order  of 
church  music: 

Grace  Church  Collection  of  Sacred  Music.  Selected 
and  arranged  from  the  classical  and  sacred  works  of 
the  great  composers  and  adapted  to  the  psalms  and 
hymns  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  with  a 
separate  organ  accompaniment  by  William  A.  King, 
organist  and  director  of  music  of  Grace  Church,  New 
York.     Ditson  &  Co.,  Boston,  1852. 

This  work,  dedicated  to  Edmund  H.  Schermerhorn, 
Esq.,  "  to  whose  correct  taste,  sound  judgment  and  poetic 
feeling"  the  people  of  Grace  Church  w^ere  then  much 
indebted  for  their  excellent  music,  consisted  of  tunes  for 
twenty  psalms  and  twenty-one  hymns  from  the  Episcopal 
hymnal.  Only  one  of  the  tunes  was  written  by  the  com- 
piler; the  others  were  arrangements  from  the  works  of 
Beethoven,  Hummel,  Mendelssohn,  Mozart,  Nicolai,  Pan- 
seron,  Schubert,  Spohr,  Thalberg  and  other  foreign  com- 


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posers.  The  author  states  in  the  preface  that  this  is  not 
a  collection  of  old  and  worn  out  tunes,  but  new  tunes, 
arrang-ed  from  the  best  writers  with  proper  reg-ard  to  the 
sentiment  of  the  hymns,  etc.  These  tunes  being-  selected 
with  the  direct  intention  of  supplying*  quartette  choirs 
with  music  for  the  various  meters,  fell  into  disuse  when 
cong-regational  singing  again  became  popular,  and  such  of 
the  old  tunes  as: 

Duke  Street,     -  -  -  -        J.  Hatton,  1790, 

Coronation,       -  -  -  -       O.  Holden,  1793, 

Missionary  Hj^mn,  -  Lowell  Mason,  1823, 

Woodstock,       -  -  -  -        D.  Button,  1829, 

Zion,          _        .  -           Thomas  Hastings,  1830, 

Webb,       -        -  -  -  -     G.  J.  Webb,  1830, 

Federal  Street,  -  -  -  H.  K.  Oliver,  1832, 

Frederick,        -  -  -  -    G.  Kingsley,  1833, 

Asleep  in  Jesus,  -  -  W.  B.  Bradbury,  1843, 

State  Street,    -  -  -  J.  C.  Woodman,  1844, 

Shining  Shore,  -  _  -  Geo.  F.  Root,  1855, 

resumed  their  proper  place,  to  remain  a  blessing  to  the 
religious  experiences  of  millions  of  people. 

Other  collections  popular  with  quartette  choirs  were: 

Church  and  Home.  By  Mr.  George  Leach,  organist  of  the 
Church  of  the  Messiah.     New  York,  1857. 

Wilson's  Sacred  Quartettes.  Composed  and  arranged 
with  separate  accompaniment  for  organ  and  pianoforte, 
and  adapted  to  the  psalms  and  hymns,  including  the 
additional  hymns,  together  with  other  portions  of  the 
service  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  By  Henry 
Wilson,  organist  of  Christ  Church,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Two  volumes.     S.  T.  Gordon  &  Co.,  New  York,  1861. 

The  Traveler's  Record.,  of  Hartford,  Conn.  (February^ 
1878),  contains  an  article  on  the  life  and  work  of  Mr.  WiL 
son,  written  by  Mr.  Charles  Dudley  Warner.  Mr.  Henry 
Wilson  was  born  December  2,  1828,  in  Greenfield,  Mass., 
the  birthplace  also  of  Mr.  Clarence  Eddy.  After  a  few 
years  of  study  in  Greenfield,  he  went  to  Boston  for  a  course 
of  musical  instruction  under  the  best  teachers  in  that  city. 
On  his  return  to  Greenfield  Mr.  Y/ilson  became  organist 
of  St.  James'  Church.  Afterward  he  removed  to  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  to  be  organist  of  the  church  of  which  Dr.  Ide 


134  PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

was  then  pastor.  In  Aug-ust,  1854,  Mr.  Wilson  went  to 
Leipzig"  for  a  3^ear  of  study  with  Plaidy  and  Moscheles,  and 
on  his  return  to  America  in  1855  was  appointed  org-anist 
and  musical  director  of  Christ  Church,  Hartford,  a  position 
which  he  filled  with  honor  and  distinction  for  twenty-one 
years.  He  married  Miss  Eugenia  J.  Baldwin,  of  Middle- 
town,  Conn.,  in  1857.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  January  8, 
189S,  he  was  org-anist  at  Park  Church,  Hartford,  where  he 
had  been  engaged  one  year.  His  funeral,  held  in  Christ 
Church,  was  attended  by  a  g-reat  concourse  of  Hartford 
people,  who  esteemed  and  honored  him  for  his  beautiful 
character.  Bishop  Williams  conducted  the  services  and 
delivered  an  eloquent  address. 

"Mr.  Wilson's  cousin,  Mr.  J.  G.  Wilson,"  says  Mr. 
Clarence  Eddy,  "  was  m}^  first  organ  teacher,  and  when  in 
Hartford,  studying  w^ith  Mr.  Dudley  Buck,  I  saw  consid- 
erable of  Mr.  Henry  Wilson.  I  have  heard  him  many 
times  in  Christ  Church;  he  played  with  remarkable  skill 
and  taste." 

Baumbach's  Sacred  Motettes.  Ditson  &  Co.,  Boston, 
Mass.,  1862. 

Hayter's  Cbturch  Music.  A  collection  of  psalm  and  hymn 
tunes,  chants,  services,  anthems,  etc.  By  A.  U. 
Hayter,  organist  at  Trinity  Church,  Boston,  and  for- 
merly at  Hereford  Cathedral,  England.  Ditson  &  Co., 
Boston,  1863. 

Mr.  Aaron  Upjohn  Hayter  was  born  in  Gillingham, 
England,  December  16,  1799.  He  came  to  this  country  in 
1835  to  take  the  position  of  organist  in  Grace  Church,  New 
York  City.  In  1837  he  was  called  to  Trinity  Episcopal 
Church  in  Boston.  As  organist  of  the  Handel  and  Haydn 
Society  he  exerted  his  influence  for  the  performance  of 
many  of  Handel's  oratorios.  Mr.  Hayter  died  in  Boston 
in  1873. 

Madison  Square  Collection.  By  Spencer  W.  Coe.  Dit- 
son &  Co.,  Boston,  1864. 

Mr.  Spencer  W.  Coe,  though  actively  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  New  York  City,  a  partner  of  ex-Mayor  William  T. 
Strong",  yet  was  able  to  give  r,ome  time  to  the  subject  of 


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church  music.  For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Coe  had  charge 
of  the  music  in  Dr.  Andrews'  (now  Dr.  Parkhurst's) 
church ;  later  he  conducted  the  musical  exercises  at  sev- 
eral of  the  larg-e  evang"elistic  meetings.  His  death  occurred 
in  February,  1896. 

Buck's    Motet    Collection.      By   Dudley  Buck,   Jr.,   of 

Hartford,  Conn.     Ditson  &  Co.,  Boston,  1864. 

His  second  "Motet  Collection"  was  published  in  1871. 

Probably  no  writer  in  America  for  choir  and  organ 
has  done  more  to  elevate  and  dignify  church  music  than 
Mr.  Dudley  Buck.  Here  we  have  another  instance  of  a 
man  whose  parents  had  intended  he  should  follow  a  mer- 
cantile life,  but  who,  when  allowed  to  pursue  his  own  tastes 
and  inclinations,  chose  the  profession  in  which  he  rose  to 
success  and  fame.  Mr.  Buck  was  born  March  10,  1839, 
in  Hartford,  Conn;  here  he  received  his  first  musical  in- 
struction. He  was  graduated  from  Trinity  College  of  that 
city,  and  then  went  to  Leipzig  to  study  theory  and  compo- 
sition with  Hauptman  and  Richter,  instrumentation  with 
Rietz,  and  the  piano  with  Moscheles  and  Plaidy.  Among 
his  fellow-students  were  Sir  Arthur  Sullivan,  Mr.  J.  F. 
Barnett  and  Mr.  Carl  Rosa.  After  three  years  of  study  in 
Germany  and  one  year  in  Paris  he  returned  to  Hartford, 
and  was  appointed  organist  of  Park  Church  (1862).  In 
1868  he  removed  to  Chicago  to  become  organist  of  St. 
James'  Episcopal  Church  and  direct  the  quartette  and 
chorus  choir.  While  in  Chicago  he  resided  at  the  house, 
39  Cass  Street,  to  which  he  added  a  studio  containing 
a  fine  three-manual  Johnson  organ.  After  the  new  organ 
was  built  in  St.  James'  (1870)  I  occasionally  attended  the 
evening  services.  The  quartette  then  consisted  of  Miss 
Heinrichs  (S.),  Miss  Kate  Van  Wordragen  (A.),  Mr. 
Edward  Schultze  (T.)  and  Mr.  Thomas  G.  Goodwillie  (B.). 

After  the  fire  of  October,  1871,  which  destroyed  his 
home,  organ,  studio  and  a  valuable  library,  Mr.  Buck  went 
to  Boston  as  organist  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  and 
the  Music  Hall  Association.  In  1877  he  was  called  to  Holy 
Trinity  Episcopal  Church,  Brooklyn,  where  he  is  now 
eng-agred. 


136  PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

Millard's  Selections.  From  popular  composers.  Ar- 
rang-ed  for  the  social  circle  and  quartette  choir  by 
Harrison  Millard.     S.  T.  Gordon,  New  York,  1868. 

Mr.  Harrison  Millard  was  born  in  Boston  November 
27,  1830;  died  in  New  York  City  September  10,  1895.  He 
served  in  the  Civil  War  as  first  lieutenant  under  Rosecranz 
and  Rosscau,  and  after  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  in 
which  he  was  vv^ounded,  retired  from  further  service,  to 
devote  himself  to  music.  He  had  charge  of  the  choirs  in 
several  New  York  churches,  among"  them  the  Broadway 
Tabernacle  and  the  Twenty-eighth  Street  Catholic  Church, 

Aside  from  the  many  collections  of  hymn  tunes  pub- 
lished for  the  use  of  choirs,  a  number  of  hymn  books  made 
their  appearance  for  the  use  of  different  denominations  in 
accordance  with  their  own  doctrines  and  beliefs.  The 
hymn  book  used  by  Presbyterian  churches  in  the  early 
part  of  this  century  was  entitled: 

The  Psalms  of  David.  Imitated  in  the  languag-e  of  the 
New  Testament  and  applied  to  the  Christian  worship 
b}'- Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  A  new  edition.  To  the  psalms  is 
added  a  selection  of  hymns  by  Timothy  Dwight,  presi- 
dent of  Yale  College.  Approved  and  allowed  by  the 
General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the 
United  States  of  America.  Albany,  1817.  Websters 
&  Skinner. 

The  Psalms  of  David.  Imitated  in  the  lang-uag-e  of  the 
New  Testament  and  applied  to  the  Christian  use  and 
worship.  By  I.  Watts,  D.  D.  A  new  edition  in  which 
the  psalms  omitted  by  Dr.  Watts  are  versified,  local 
passag-es  are  altered,  etc.  By  Timothy  Dwight,  D.D., 
president  of  Yale  College.     New  Haven,  1827. 

The  Congregationalists  prepared  a  collection  in  1825 
which  Presbyterians  were  not  at  all  averse  to  using-,  as  it 
contained  some  remarkably  good  hymns  : 

Village  Hymns.  Selected  by  Asahel  Nettleton  as  a  sup- 
plement to  Dr.  Watts'  book  of  hymns. 

This  book  was  in  general  use  by  Presbyterians  and 
Congregationalists,  and  passed  through  many  editions. 
The  writer  has  a  copy  "  Stereotype  edition,  Hartford, 
1856."  A  distinctive  feature  of  the  "Village  Hymns  "  is 
an  index  of  tunes,  arranged  in  two  divisions,  sharp  keys 


PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS.  137 

and  flat  keys,  for  the  convenience  of  choir  leaders  in  read- 
ily finding- a  tune  and  its  pitch.  Thus,  Tallis'  "Evening- 
Hymn,"  written  in  the  key  of  G  major,  one  sharp,  appears 
among-  the  long-  meter  tunes,  sharp  keys.  "Warwick." 
common  meter,  written  in  the  key  of  E  flat  major,  appears 
among-  the  flat  keys. 

The  General  Assembly  of  1830  approved  and  author- 
ized the  publication  of  a  collection  of  psalms  and  hymns, 
which  came  into  g-eneral  use: 

Psalms  and  Hymns.  Adapted  to  public  worship,  and 
approved  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  of  the  United  States  of  America.  Pub- 
lished for  the  General  Assembly  by  Solomon  Allen, 
No.  18  South  Third  Street,  and  for  sale  by  the  book- 
sellers g-enerally.     Philadelphia,  1831. 

A  few  years  later  another  hymnal  appeared: 

Psalms  and  Hymns.  Adapted  to  public  worship,  and 
approved  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church  in  the  United  States  of  America;  the 
latter  being-  arranged  according-  to  subjects,  tog-ether 
with  titles  prefixed  to  each  and  directions  for  musical 
expression.  Published  by  J.  Whethan,  No.  22  South 
Fourth  Street,  Philadelphia.     1836. 

The  General  Assembly  at  the  meeting  in  May,  1840, 
ag-ain  took  up  the  subject  of  psalmody,  and  appointed  the 
follov/ing  committee  to  prepare  a  new  book : 

IVnNISTERS.  ELDERS. 

Rev.  Samuel  H.  Cox,  D.D.  Mr.  Morton  Smith. 

Rev.  Philip  C.  Kay,  D.D.  Mr.  F.  A.  Raybold. 

Rev.  Albert  Barnes,  D.D.  Mr.  John  L.  Mason. 

Rev.  William  Adams,  D.D.  Mr.  Lowell  Holbrook. 

Rev.  David  A.  Riddle,  D.D.  Mr.  Frederick  Bull. 

The  committee  made  its  report  to  the  General  As- 
sembh^  in  New  York  City,  November  5, 1842,  with  a  collec- 
tion of  hymns,  which  came  out  the  next  year  under  this 
title : 

The  Church  Psalmist:  or  Psalms  and  Hymns  for  the 
public,  social  and  private  use  of  Evangelical  Chris- 
tians.    Mark  H.  Newman  &  Co.,  New  York,  1843. 


138  PSALMODY,   TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS. 

The  edition  of  1847  was  commended  to  the  Christian 
public,  and  "  especially  to  all  the  churches  under  the  care 
of  the  Assembly." 

The  Church  Psalivhst:  or  Psalms  and  Hymns  for  the 
public,  social  and  private  use  of  Evangfelical  Chris- 
tians; containing-  also  directions  for  musical  expression 
and  an  index  of  first  lines  of  stanzas;  also  a  new  and 
copious  index  of  subjects.  Iveson  &  Phinney,  suc- 
cessors to  Mark  H.  Newman  &  Co.,  New  York. 

A  curious  feature  of  this  hymnal  was  the  sign  of 

musical  expression,  placed  at  the  beg^inning-  of  each  line, 

for  the  aid  of  the  choir  and  congregation.     The  first  two 

verses  of  Miss  Anna  Steele's  well  known  hymn  appeared 

in  this  way : 

M.  O  could  our  thoug-hts  and  wishes  fly 

>  Above  these  gloomy  shades, 

<C  To  those  bright  worlds  beyond  the  sky 

X[  Which  sorrow  ne'er  invades. 

<C      Every  morning  service,  cheer, 
Scatter  all  our  guilty  gloom. 
Saviour,  Son  of  God,  appear; 

—  To  Thy  loving  Temple  come. 

For  the  interpretation  of  these  and  other  musical 
terms,  a  special  index  was  prepared : 

M.     Medium. 
>       Diminuendo. 
<       Crescendo. 

X       Inverted  swell,  diminishing 
and  increasing. 

—  Contradicts  all  former  marks. 

An  English  edition  of  Dr.  Watts'  hymns  was  used  by 
some  Presbyterian  churches: 

The  Psalms  of  David.  Imitated  in  New  Testament  lan- 
guage, together  with  Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs,  in 
three  books,  by  the  Rev.  Isaac  Watts,  D.D.  A  new 
edition,  wnth  an  index  of  the  first  line  of  every  verse, 
and  the  names  of  tunes  suitable  to  every  hymn, 
selected  from  "The  Psalmist."  Printed  and  sold  by 
J.  Haddon,  Castle  Street,  Finsbury,  London,  1853. 

People  began  to  realize  at  last  the  inconvenience  of 
separate  books  for  words  and  music,  and,  that  if  congre- 
gational singing  was  ever  to  succeed,  words  and  music 


PSALMODY,  TUNE  AND  HYMN  BOOKS.  139 

must  be  put  together  in  some  compact  form.  The  Con- 
g-reg"ational  Church  was  the  first  to  bring  about  this  much 
needed  change,  with  a  book  of  words  and  music,  called  the 
"Plymouth  Collection,"  which  came  out  in  1855,  edited  by 
Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 

"  The  Plymouth  Collection  marks  the  time  when 
the  change  took  place  from  'Words  Only'  to  'Words  and 
Music,'  in  our  church  hymn  books. "^  Two  other  works 
appeared  under  the  auspices  of  the  Congregational 
Church,  the  "Sabbath  Hymn  and  Tune  Book"  and  the 
"  Congregational  Hymn  and  Tune  Book  "  (1859). 

The  Presbyterian  Church  was  slow  in  recognizing  the 
worth  of  this  new  form  of  hymnal,  and  continued  with  the 
old  method  until  Rev.  Charles  S.  Robinson,  D.D.,  brought 
out  in  1862  "The  Songs  for  the  Church,"  followed  by 
"The  Songs  for  the  Sanctuary,"  1865.  The  latter  work 
met  with  favor  at  once,  as  it  satisfied  the  wishes  of  the 
congregation  in  its  selection  of  old  tunes,  and  was  welcome 
in  the  choir  galler}^  for  the  many  new  tunes  it  contained. 
Dr.  Robinson's  hymnal,  "The  Songs  for  the  Sanctuary," 
was  used  in  the  First  Church  until  1888,  when  the  present 
hymnal,  "  Laudes  Domini,"  was  introduced. 


^Letter  from  Mr.  Henry  B.   Barnes,  of   A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.,   New  York  City, 
March  6, 1899. 


140  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 


REV.  JEREMIAH  PORTER,  D.D.,  FOUNDER. 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter  was  born  in  Hadley,  Mass., 
December  27,  1804.  He  came  of  a  lineag-e  which  repre- 
sented the  best  families  in  that  commonwealth:  his  g-rand- 
father,  Hon.  Samuel  Porter,  having-  married  Susanna,  a 
g'randdaughter  of  Jonathan  Edwards,  the  elder,  "one  of 
the  brightest  luminaries,"  says  Robert  Hall,  "of  the 
Christian  Church,  not  excluding  any  country  or  age,  since 
the  apostolic,  and  by  whose  death  Calvinism  lost  its 
ablest  defender."  Jeremiah  Porter  was  educated  at  Hop- 
kins Academy  and  Williams  College,  entering  Williams  in 
the  same  class  with  David  Dudley  Field.  In  the  year 
ahead  of  him  were  Mark  Hopkins  and  Brainerd  Kent,  our 
"Father  Kent,"^  who  founded  Railroad  Mission  May  10, 
1857.  Mr.  Porter  was  graduated  in  1825,  and  in  the  same 
year  entered  Andover  Theological  Seminary.  Doubting  if 
he  was  called  to  the  ministry,  he  left  the  seminary  after  two 
years,  and  in  the  spring  of  1828  took  charge  of  a  high  school 
in  Troy,  N.  Y.  He  entered  Princeton  Theological  Sem- 
inary in  1830,  and  in  the  autumn  of  1831  after  graduation, 
was  ordained  at  the  request  of  the  American  Home  Mis- 
sionary Society  as  a  Missionary  Evangelist.  In  November 
he  began  his  missionary  work  at  Fort  Brady,  Sault  Ste. 
Marie,  Michigan  Territory,  holding  a  revival  in  the  fort 
and  town,  and  organizing  a  church  of  five  members,  which 
soon  increased  to  thirty-three. 

The  Home  Missiojimy  for  May,  1832,  contains  an 
article  by  young  Porter,  giving  some  experiences  of  pio- 
neer life  at  Fort  Brady,  with  an  account  of  his  journey 
from  the  East  and  the  primitive  conveyances  in  use  at  that 
time.  After  eight  days  and  nights  of  continuous  travel  he 
reached  Detroit  (Fort  Gratiot),  only  to  wait  another  ten 
days  for  a  vessel  going  up  the  lakes.     Seven  days  more 

>Rev.  Brainerd  Kent  was  born  in  Dorset,  Vt.,  April  25,  1802;  died  in  Chicago, 
January  29,  1888. 


REV.    JEREMIAH   PORTER,    D.D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  141 

were  consumed  in  g-oing-  to  Mackinac,  where  he  was  again 
"held  up"  (the  last  vessel  for  the  season  having  gone) 
until  a  canoe  was  sent  for  him  from  the  Sault.  In  this 
frail  craft,  propelled  by  two  French  boatmen,  whose  lan- 
g-uage  he  could  not  then  speak,with  a  black  man  for  a  com- 
panion, in  bitter  cold  weather,  the  last  ninety  miles  of  his 
voyage  were  accomplished. 

In  later  life  Mr.  Porter  often  spoke  of  the  long  voyage 
in  May,  1833,  when  he  accompanied  the  troops,  under  the 
command  of  Major  Fowle,from  the  Sault  Ste.  Marie  to  Fort 
Dearborn.  He  dwelt  with  pleasure  on  his  recollections  of 
a  little  child,  then  only  a  year  and  a  half  old,  the  daughter 
of  Major  Fowle,  who  helped  to  brighten  this  tedious  trip. 
"It  was  her  mother,"  says  Dr.  Mitchell,  "who  may  be  said 
to  have  brought  to  this  place  the  founder  of  its  first  Chris- 
tian Church,  or  at  least  to  have  been  the  right  hand  helper 
of  the  pioneer."  Forty  years  after  that  voyag-e,  when 
Mr.  Porter  was  in  Boston,  a  lady  sought  him  out  and 
asked  him  if  he  were  the  minister  who  accompanied  Major 
Fowle  and  the  troops  to  Chicago  in  1833.  Learning-  that 
he  was,  she  replied:  "  Do  you  remember  the  little  girl  that 
was  on  board?  I  am  she."  She  became  the  wife  of  Mr. 
Henry  F.  Durant,  of  Boston,  and  at  that  time  (1873)  she 
and  her  husband  were  engaged  in  the  generous  enterprise 
of  founding  Wellesley  College. 

Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter  organized  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church,  of  Chicago,  in  the  capacity  of  a  Missionary 
Evangelist,  representing  the  American  Home  Missionary 
Society,  but  never  having-  been  installed,  he  could  not  be 
properly  called  its  first  pastor.  The  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  founded  by  him  on  June  26,  1833,  is  the  oldest 
religious  society  in  Chicago— older  than  the  town  of  Chi- 
cago, which  was  not  incorporated  until  August  10,  1833. 
Mr.  Porter  aided  the  Baptists  in  starting  their  first 
Society,  October  19,  1833,  and  gave  the  use  of  the  Presby- 
terian meeting  house  to  the  Episcopalians  for  the  organi- 
zation of  St.  James'  Church  in  October,  1834.^ 

»  The  records  of  St.  James'  Episcopal  Church  show  that  its  first  service  "  was 
held  in  the  Presbyterian  Church  on  October  12,  1S34,  by  the  Rev.  Palmer  Dyer.  Rev. 
Isaac  Hallman,  who  had  been  sent  out  to  this  western  land  by  the  Domestic  Board  of 


142  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

During  the  first  two  years  of  its  existence  the  infant 
church  was  more  or  less  dependent  on  the  Home  Mission- 
ary Society  for  its  support,  Mr.  Porter's  position  being- 
that  of  stated  supply.  His  whole  life  seems  to  have  been 
consecrated  to  missionary  work  on  the  frontier,  organizing- 
churches  and  planting  the  good  seed  in  carefully  selected 
places,  leaving  to  others  the  care  and  management  and 
gathering  of  the  fruit.  And  what  a  goodly  heritage  has 
come  down  to  us! 

In  1835  Dr.  Porter  accepted  the  call  to  the  Main  Street 
Presbyterian  Church,  Peoria,  where  he  felt  there  was 
great  need  for  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel.  Dr.  Porter's 
next  pastorate  was  in  Farmington,  Fulton  county,  where 
he  labored  until  the  spring  of  1840,  and  then  accepted  a 
call  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  remain- 
ing there  eighteen  years.  From  Green  Bay  he  came,  in 
1858,  to  the  Edwards  Congregational  Church,  of  Chicago. 

I  cannot  give  a  better  account  of  the  noble  services  of 
Dr.  and  Mrs.  Porter  in  the  Sanitary  and  Christian  Com- 
missions during  the  Civil  War  than  by  quoting  the  words  of 
Dr.  Barrows,  in  his  sermon  at  the  Jubilee  Services  in  1883: 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Porter  joined  the  army  for  service  in  the 
field  at  Cairo,  in  March,  1862,  and  labored  in  the  hospitals 
at  Cairo,  Mound  City,  Pittsburg  Landing,  .Memphis  and 
Vicksburg.  His  regiment  was  the  1st  Illinois  Light  Artil- 
lery, and  his  eldest  son,  James  W.  Porter,  was  a  member 
of  it.  Mr.  Porter  entered  Vicksburg  on  July  6,  1863,  and 
helped  bury  the  dead  found  in  the  hospitals.  During  the 
next  winter  he  ministered  to  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Vicksburg,  and  served  in  the  city  hospitals,  while  Mrs. 
Porter  followed  with  sanitary  stores  the  army  corps  in 
Tennessee  and  Alabama.  Mr.  Porter  joined  his  wife 
under  Kennesaw  Mountain,  and  passed  the  summer  of  1864 
at  Marietta,  Ga.,  until  the  capture  of  Atlanta,  ministering 
to  the  wants  of  the  sick  and  wounded  of  our  army,  and  also 
to  the  needs  of  the  Confederate  prisoners.  Five  of  the 
Confederate  officers  and  twenty  of  the  Confederate  sol- 
diers gave  to  Mrs.  Porter  certificates  testifying  to  her 
great  kindness  to  them,  and  asking  like  kindness  to  her,  if 

Missions,  arrived  in  Chicag-o  on  the  evening-  of  October  12,  and  preached  his  first  sermon 
in  the  Baptist  Church  at  Franklin  and  South  Water  Streets,  the  following  Sunday, 
October  19.  On  October  26, 1834,  the  parish  was  organized  in  an  unfinished  frame  build- 
ing- on  North  Water  Street,  near  tlie  Dearborn  Street  drawbridge." 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  143 

she  should  ever  become  a  prisoner.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Porter 
were  at  Savannah  a  fev\^  days  after  General  Sherman  made 
a  Christmas  g-ift  of  that  city  to  the  nation.  After  the  sur- 
render of  Lee  they  went  to  Washington  to  labor  with  the 
troops  there,  and,  later,  accompanied  General  Log^an's 
army  to  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  remained  with  that  corps  till 
July  31,  1865.  Later  in  the  year,  Mr.  Porter  was  sent  by 
the  United  States  Christian  Commission  to  the  troops  on 
the  Rio  Grande,  who  were  ordered  there  to  protect  our 
border  from  the  agg-ressions  of  France  under  the  Emperor 
Maximilian.  Mrs. 'Porter  was  sent  there  at  the  same  time 
with  supplies,  by  the  North  West  Sanitary  Commission. 
Their  work  with  the  troops  having-  been  accomplished,  and 
the  'Rio  Grande  Seminary  having  been  revived  by  Mrs. 
Porter,  they  were  recalled  to  Chicago  in  the  spring  of  1866. 
That  year  Mr.  Porter  accepted  the  call  to  the  Congrega- 
tional Church  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wis.,  and  in  1868  he  be- 
came pastor  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  Brownsville, 
Tex.,  and  with  his  wife  and  the  Misses  Grant,  of  Chicago, 
took  charge  of  the  Rio  Grande  Seminary.  In  1870  Mr. 
Porter  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  Senate  Post 
Chaplain,  U.  S.  A.,  at  Fort  Brown,  and  officiated  there  until 
1873.  He  was  then  transferred  to  Fort  Sill,  Indian  Terri- 
tory, and  in  1875  to  Fort  Russell,  Wyoming  Territory. 
He  was  retired  from  service  by  act  of  Congress,  June  30, 
1882.  Few  lives  have  been  as  eventful  and  useful  as  those 
here  sketched.  There  are  multitudes  on  earth  and  in 
heaven  who  call  them  blessed. 

Dr.  Porter's  last  days  were  quietly  passed  in  the 
home  of  his  beloved  daughter  at  Beloit,  Wis.,  where  he 
died  on  the  25th  of  July,  1893,  in  the  ninetieth  year  of  his 
age.  At  the  funeral  services,  held  in  the  college  chapel. 
Pastor  Hamlin  preached  from  the  text  of  Dr.  Porter's 
first  sermon  in  Fort  Dearborn:  "Herein  is  my  Father 
glorified,  that  ye  bear  much  fruit,"  a  text  happily  illus- 
trated by  the  fruitful  life  of  this  beloved,  successful  mis- 
sionary. 


144  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 


MEMORIAL  SKETCH  OF  REV.  JNO.  BLATCH- 
FORD,  D.D.,  FIRST  PASTOR. 

PREPARED   BY   HIS   SON,  ELIPHALET   WICKES   BLATCHFORD. 

Rev.  John  Blatchford,  D.D.,  who  is  honored  as  being- 
the  first  installed  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicag-o,  arrived  in  our  city  in  September, 
1836 — the  brig  "Erie,"  on  which  he  and  his  wife  came 
from  Detroit,  being- wrecked  off  the  foot  of  Madison  Street. 
After  a  brief  stay  here  they  proceeded  to  Jacksonville,  111., 
where  Dr.  Blatchford  filled  for  the  winter  of  1836-37  the 
of&ce  of  President  of  Illinois  College,  at  the  same  time 
preaching  regularly.  A  friend,  who  well  knew  him  then, 
said  of  his  pulpit  work:  "Seldom  have  I  heard  more  pow- 
erful exhibitions  of  Gospel  truth,  or  more  impressively  de- 
livered, than  those  which  fell  from  his  lips  during-  that 
winter."  Early  in  1837  Dr.  Blatchford  accepted  the  call  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicag-o,  and  was  in- 
stalled as  its  pastor  on  July  1  of  the  same  year. 

John  Blatchford  was  born  at  Newfield  (now  Bridge- 
port), Conn.,  May  24, 1799.  His  father,  Rev.  Samuel  Blatch- 
ford, D.D.,  born  at  Devonport,  near  Plymouth,  England, 
of  parents,  "both  of  whom  were  eminent  for  piety,"  was 
educated  at  the  Dissenting  College  of  Homerton,  near  Lon- 
don. His  studies  in  the  ancient  languag-es  were  pursued 
with  special  thoroughness,  thus  laying-  the  foundation  for 
his  permanent  and  successful  career  as  a  classical  teacher, 
duties  often  associated  with  the  pastorate  in  those  days. 
He  came  to  America  in  1795,  and  after  a  successful  minis- 
try of  seven  years  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  removed  to  Lan- 
sing-burg-h,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  for  twenty-four  years  the 
honored  pastor  of  the  united  Presbyterian  churches  of 
Lansing-burgh  and  Waterford,  at  the  same  time  being- 
Principal  of  the  Lansingburgh  Academy.  Dr.  Samuel 
Blatchford  died  March  17,  1828. 

John  Blatchford,  after  being  graduated  at  Union  College 
in  1820,  studied  theology  at  Princeton,  where  he  was  gradu- 


REV.  JOHN   BLATCHKOKD,  D.D. 
From  a  dawuerreotj-pe  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  E.  W.  Blatchford. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 


145 


ated  in  1823,  and  was  in  the  same  year  licensed  to  preach 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Troy,  N.  Y.  After  two  years'  labor 
in  a  home  missionary  church  in  Pittstown,  N.  Y.,  he  was 
called  to  Stillwater,  in  the  same  state,  M'hence  in  1830  he 
removed  to  Bridg-eport,  Conn.,  where  he  enjoyed  six  years 
of  successful  work  as  pastor  of  the  First  Cong-regational 
Church,^  the  same  church  to  which  his  father  had  minis- 
tered thirty  years  before — an  unusual  coincidence. 

When  Dr.  Blatchford  reached  our  city  in  May,  1837, 
its  population  was  less  than  4,000.  The  frame  building-, 
sometimes  called  the  "Lord's  Barn,"  occupied  by  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church,  was  then  situated  on  the  rear 
of  the  lot  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Lake  and  Clark  Streets, 
a  little  north  of  the  Sherman  House.  It  was  soon  removed 
to  the  rear  part  of  the  lot  on  the  southwest  corner  of  Clark 
and  Washing-ton  Streets,  "widened,  and  its  leng-th  doubled." 
Diagfonally  from  this  corner  was  the  parsonag^e,  called  "the 
yellow  cottag-e,"  from  its  color,  a  modest  story-and-a-half 
cottagfe,  enlarged  to  provide  the  study  and  library  for  the 
minister. 

In  those  early  years  of  foundation  laying-,  the  work  of 
Dr.  Blatchford  was  essential,  and  permanent,  moulding-  as 
he  did,  with  skillful  hand  the  varied,  often  heterog-eneous, 
elements  pouring-  into  this  young-  city,  and  so  helping-  to 
establish  that  marked  esprit  de  corps  characteristic  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church.  It  has  been  well  said  of  him:  "With 
gifts  and  powers,  such  as  few  possess,  with  an  all  ruling 
love  presiding  over  his  unusual  abilities,  it  is  not  surpris- 
ing that  this  church  flourished  under  his  laborious  minis- 
trations. For  a  little  more  than  two  years  he  gave  himself 
to  the  preaching  of  the  Word,  with  a  zeal  which  consumed 


1  Now  called  the  "  North  Congreg-ational  Church."  The  present  ediiice,  erected 
in  1850,  contains  a  number  of  memorial  windows,  one  given  by  Mr.  Eliphalet  W.  Blatch- 
ford, of  Chicag-o,  at  the  celebration  of  the  two  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  church  in  1895, 
and  bearing'  this  inscription: 


In  Memory  of 

SAMUEL  BLATCHFORD,   D.D. 

Pastor  of  this  Church. 

A.D.  1797-1804. 


And  of  His  Son 
JOHN   BLATCHFORD,  D.D. 

Also  Pastor  of  this  Church 
A.D.  1830-1836. 


146  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

his  vital  forces,  and  materially  shortened  his  life."  His 
convincing-,  practical  preaching-,  combined  with  faithful 
pastoral  work,  resulted  under  God's  blessing-,  in  a  revival 
in  the  winter  of  1838  and  1839,  which  extended  to  the 
Methodist  and  Baptist  churches  on  either  side.  For  two 
months,  with  his  nearest  ministerial  brother  some  ninety 
miles  away,  sing-le-handed  did  he  conduct  this  work, 
preaching-  almost  daily,  and  twice  and  three  times  on  the 
Sabbath.  Many  who  have  since  been  prominent  among- 
our  citizens  in  every  good  work,  date  the  consecration  of 
their  lives  to  that  memorable  winter.  But  for  the  young 
pastor  the  burden  was  too  heavy — he  fell  by  the  way.  An 
attack  of  brain  fever  prostrated  him,  and  it  was  eight 
months  before  he  could  even  occasionally  resume  pulpit 
work.  One  who  knew  him  well  wrote:  "He  seems  never 
to  have  been  fully  himself  afterward,  in  vigor  and  endur- 
ance of  constitution." 

From  a  small  volume  of  manuscript  sermons  of  Dr. 
Blatchford's,  open  before  me,  it  may  prove  of  interest  if  I 
quote  a  few  texts  of  discourses,  with  dates  attached,  deliv- 
ered duringhis  pastorate  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. 
These  will  indicate  the  character  of  the  Gospel  truths,  the 
presentation  of  which  produced  resultant  influences  vt'hich 
still  move  on  into  the  eternity  before  us. 

The  volume  is  marked: 

"John  Blatchford,  Chicago,  111.,  No.  6." 
March,  1838,  Prov.  xxvii:  18:  "He  that  waiteth  on  his  Mas- 
ter shall  be  honored."     Read  Matthew  xxv:  14-30. 

November,  1838,  Mark  vi:  20:  "He  did  many  things  and 
heard  him  gladly." 

[Johnxv:24:  "But  now  have   they   both   seen  and 
1838,^      hated  both  me  and  my  Father." 
(  Rom.  i:  30:  "Haters  of  God." 

Acts  xviii:  6:  "And  when  they  opposed  them- 
selves and  blasphemed,  he  shook  his  rai- 
September,  J       ment,  and  said  unto  them.  Your  blood  be 
1838,  '        upon  your  own  heads.     I  am  clean." 

Hosea  xiii:  9:  "O  Israel,  thou  hast  destroyed 
thyself;  but  in  me  is  there  help." 
October,  1838,  II  Cor.  v:20:  "Be  ye  reconciled  to  God." 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  147 

October,  1838,  Isaiah  xlviii:22:   "There  is  no  peace,  saith 

the  Lord,  unto  the  wicked." 
October,  1838,  Matt.  xi:28:    "Come  unto  me,  all  ye  that 

labor  and  are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  g"ive  you  rest." 
March,  1839,  Acts  xxiv:25:  "Go  thy  way  for  this  time: 

when  I  have  a  convenient  season,  I  will  call  for  thee." 

While  the  ill  health  of  his  wife  brought  him  westward. 
Dr.  Blatchford's  broken  condition  compelled  his  return  to 
eastern  friends. 

As  illustrative  of  the  duties  for  the  church  at  larg-e. 
which  the  pastor  was  called  upon  to  perform  in  that  early 
day,  the  following-  incident  and  letter  will  be  of  interest. 
In  company  with  Elder  Benjamin  W.  Raymond,  on  Febru- 
ary 19,  1838,  Dr.  Blatchford  went  in  a  sleigh  to  Mechanic's 
Grove  (now  Ivanhoe),  about  thirty-five  miles  northwest  of 
Chicago,  in  Lake  county,  for  the  organization  of  a  church. 
They  crossed  the  Des  Plaines  river  on  the  ice,  at  which 
point,  with  kindly  solicitude,  they  were  met  by  Elisha 
Clark,  of  Mechanic's  Grove,  and  were  by  him  guided  over 
the  intervening  prairie. 

The  following  is  a  copy  (taken  from  the  church  rec- 
ords) of  the  certificate  recording  the  formation  of  this 
church,  written  and  signed  by  Rev.  John  Blatchford: 

This  may  certify  that  in  obedience  to  the  order  of  the 
Presbytery,  I  visited  Mechanic's  Grove,  February  20, 1839, 
and  organized  a  church  in  accordance  with  the  constitu- 
tion of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  U.  S.  A. 

The  following  persons  composed  the  church  as 
organized.     [Here  follows  a  list  of  sixteen  persons.] 

Elisha  Clark,  Hiram  Clark  and  Oliver  L.  Payne  were 
elected  ruling  elders,  and  were  regularly  ordained  to  the 
office.  (Signed)         John  Blatchford. 

A  true  copy.     Elisha  Clark. 

Much  and  valuable  work,  however,  in  response  to  his 
earnest  nature,  was  he  able  to  accomplish  in  after  years, 
in  spite  of  frequent  weakness  and  suffering.  He  spent 
the  winter  of  1840-41  in  Wheeling,  W.  Va.  From  1841  to 
1844  he  was  connected  with  Marion  College,  Mo.,  first  as 
professor,  and  afterward  as  president. 

In  this  region  of  northern  Missouri  he  became  widely 
known  and  beloved,  aiding  in  the  formation  of  Home  Mis- 


148  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

sionary  churches,  by  which  his  acceptable  and  gratuitous 
ministrations  were  constantly  soug-ht. 

An  illustration  of  his  preaching-  services  at  this  time, 
and  of  the  kind  of  work  in  aid  of  the  early  foundation  of 
Presbyterianism  in  a  new  country,  is  afforded  in  a  letter 
recently  received  from  a  minister  now  retired  from  active 
work,  who  remembers  the  scenes  of  fifty-five  years  ag"o. 
He  writes:  "The  occasion  and  place  of  my  first  acquaint- 
ance with  Dr.  Blatchford  was  at  a  Presbyterian  camp 
meeting-,  held  near  the  Des  Moines  river,  in  Clark  county, 
Mo.  The  reason  of  this  kind  of  meeting-  was  the  scarcity  of 
meeting-  houses  for  the  use  of  the  then  scattered  families  of 
this  denomination.  To  unite  these  loyal  Christians,  it  was 
deemed  well  to  have  an  occasional  camp  meeting,  answer_ 
ing  in  some  degree  to  the  three  or  four  days'  meeting-s  to 
which  they  were  accustomed  in  their  old  home  churches. 
The  preparations  for  the  meeting-  would  be  quite  primi- 
tive. The  friends  would  g-ather  tog-ether,  decide  on  the 
location,  clear  the  ground,  cut  dov/n  trees,  using-  the 
smaller  ones  for  'stringers,'  and  splitting-  the  larger  ones 
into  'puncheons'  for  seats.  A  few  log-  cabins  were  built, 
with  a  specially  larg-e  one  for  the  preachers.  This  was 
furnished  with  a  half  dozen  split  bottomed  chairs,  a  small 
table,  and  an  abundance  of  new,  sweet  straw.  Then  the 
rustic  stand  for  the  minister  completed  this  line  of  prepa- 
ration for  the  big-  meeting-.  But  this  was  by  no  means  all 
the  preparation  made  for  the  occasion.  The  faithful  and 
devout  women,  not  a  few,  had  been  saving-  the  best  of  their 
poultry  and  of  their  pantries  for  weeks,  to  g-ive  of  their 
best  to  the  expected  friends. 

"Among-  the  ministers  present  at  this  first  meeting-, 
held,  I  think,  in  the  fall  of  1843,  was  Rev.  Dr.  John 
Blatchford,  who  made  a  deep  impression  upon  my  then 
youthful  mind.  He  was  about  forty-five  years  of  ag-e, 
yet  seemed  like  a  young-  man  of  twenty-five.  He  was 
in  g-ood  health,  of  beaming-  countenance,  filled  with  joy- 
g-iving-  life.  Every  one  around  him  seemed  to  catch  the 
inspiration  that  animated  him.  He  was  the  manliest  min- 
ister I  had  ever  met.     He  was  a  living-  representative  of 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  149 

Him  who  said:  'I  came  that  they  may  have  [Greek]  a 
superabundance  of  it';  i.e.^  enjoy  and  manifest  life's  brig-ht- 
est  privileg-es  and  blessing-s.  (The  idea  is,  the  overfiow- 
ing-s  of  life  for  others.)  As  our  Lord  saith  again,  '  The 
water  that  I  shall  give  him  shall  become  in  him  a  well  of 
water,  springing  up  into  the  eternal  life.'  Dr.  Blatchford 
seemed  to  have  a  connection  with  this  fountain,  and  after 
refreshing-  his  own  soul  with  these  life  giving  waters,  he 
opened  all  the  outlets  of  holy,  loving  life  for  others. 
Freely  he  received,  f reel}^  he  gave.  In  his  daily  social  and 
official  duties  he  could  but  pour  forth  the  inflowings  of  the 
Spirit  from  his  own  enriching  experiences  of  the  love  of 
his  Saviour  and  King. 

"No  vv^onder  the  people  listened  to  the  words  of  truth 
and  grace  that  poured  from  his  lips !  His  preaching  was 
in  the  demonstration  of  the  Spirit  and  of  power.  He 
brought  to  his  arrested  hearers  the  confirming"  power  of 
his  own  experiences  of  the  love  and  mercy  of  God  toward 
sinners  in  the  sufferings  and  death  of  Jesus  Christ.  He 
gave  them  the  assurance  that  the  joy  of  the  Lord  is  God's 
blessed  tonic  for  the  debilitating  influences  of  sin.  He 
proclaimed  the  Holy  Spirit,  as  the  enlightener  and  com- 
forter of  God's  people. 

"Thus  these  memories  of  teachings  of  over  fifty  years 
ago  come  to  me  with  refreshing  influence  and  cheering- 
grace." 

In  his  own  house  Dr.  Blatchford  conducted  the  educa- 
tion and  training  of  theological  students;  and  may  be  called 
the  pioneer  of  New  School  Presbyterianism  in  Missouri. 
The  last  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  Quincy,  111.,  to 
v/hich  he  removed  in  1847.  "The  object  much  engaging 
him  the  last  year  or  tv/o  of  his  life  was  an  enterprise  for 
establishing  a  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary  in  the 
Northwest,  of  the  Board  for  accomplishing-  which  he  was 
president  at  the  time  of  his  decease,"  which  occurred  at 
the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Morris  Collins,  in  St.  Louis, 
April  8,  1855. 

Dr.  Blatchford's  winning  personality  and  g-enial  nature, 
his  g-enerous  hospitality  and  sense  of  humor,  combined  with 


150  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

strong-  social  instincts,  made  him  a  delig-htful  companion, 
and  cemented  friendships  among-  both  young-  and  old,  the 
memory  of  which  still  ling-ers  in  the  communities  which 
enjoyed  his  ministrations.  His  peculiar  influence  in  aiding- 
inquirers  after  lig-ht  and  consolation  is  shown  in  a  letter 
unexpectedly  received  a  few  days  since  from  an  elderly 
lady,  the  daug-hter  of  a  Presbyterian  clerg-yman,  eminent 
in  his  day.  Referring-  to  Dr.  Blatchford,  she  writes: 
"  More  than  half  a  century  ag-o,  when  in  great  mental  dis- 
quietude, I  expressed  intense  longing-  for  that  which  alone 
could  bring-  rest.  I  had  an  unquenchable  desire  to  become 
a  Christian.  It  v/as  a  '  narrovv^  way  '  to  me,  and  a  very  ob- 
scure one.  Thoroug-hly  imbued  with  mediaeval  theolog-y, 
with  its  arbitrary  God,  whom  I  could  not  but  reg-ard  as  an 
Almig-lity  tyrant,  at  the  same  time  tortured  with  fear,  for 
surely  such  impious  thoughts  indicat'^.d  that  the  Holy  Spirit 
had  been  g-rieved  av/ay  forever! — a  stricken  soul,  yet  too 
timid  to  tell  my  traditionally  relig-ious  teachers  that  which 
I  believed  would  put  me  outside  of  the  pale  of  all  orthodox 
forbearance.  Urg-ed  to  unite  with  the  church,  I  had  a  con- 
ference with  one  of  clear  vision,  who  carried  with  him  an 
atmosphere  of  peace  and  spiritual  serenity.  The  intona- 
tions of  his  voice  are  as  unforgotten  to-day,  as  his  words  to 
me:  'You  have  only  to  return  to  your  Father's  house.' 
That  was  a  new  note,  new  light — direction  in  obscurity; 
and  even  gladder  the  tidings  as  he  proceeded:  'God  is  your 
Father.  He  is  not  only  your  Father,  but  He  is  your  loving 
Father,  and  cannot  forget  His  erring  child,  even  when  the 
child  forgets  Him.  However  far  you  've  wandered  from 
Him,  He  is  never  fai'  f)-om  you.  You've  only  now  to  go 
back  to  your  Father's  house.'  Thus  my  miserably  trem- 
bling hope  grew  all  at  once  into  an  assured  conviction,  so 
much  to  me  were  these  simple  words!  They  have  been 
emphasized  b}^  our  Quaker  poet: 

I  know  not  where  His  islands  lift 

Their  fronded  palms  in  air, 
I  only  know  I  cannot  drift 

Beyond  His  love  and  care. 
"A  dear  lady  friend  of  mine,  who  went  to  him  almost 
crushed  under  a  weight  of  sorrow,  told  me  that  so  helpful 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  151 

had  his  counsel  proved  to  her  that  she  had  g-rown  not  only 
resig-ned,  but  hopeful  and  almost  happy." 

By  an  intimate  friend  and  brother-minister  it  was 
written  of  him:  "That  life  is  successful  in  the  best 
sense,  that  ends  in  heaven,  and  that  leads  others  thither. 
In  estimating-  his  life,  we  are  to  remember  he  lived  in  this 
country  in  a  period  when  the  powers  of  a  life  are  vastly 
multiplied,  and  are  not  to  be  reckoned  on  a  common  scale. 
I  listened  to  the  public  statement  of  a  clergyman  in  St. 
Louis,  who  knew  our  brother  well  in  the  West  and  the 
East,  who  gave  his  opinion,  that  within  his  own  knowledge 
1,000  souls  at  least  had  received  their  first  effective  relig"- 
ious  impressions,  or  had  been  brought  to  Christ,  through 
the  ministrations  of  the  deceased.  Surely  of  such  an  one  it 
is  true  that  in  his  works  he  shall  never  die." 


152  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 


REV.  FLAVEL  BASCOM,  D.D.,  SECOND 
PASTOR. 

The  memorial  published  the  year  following-  Dr.  Bas- 
com's  death  contains  the  sermon  of  Rev.  G.  F.  S.  Sav- 
age, D.D.,  prepared  for  the  funeral  services  of  "this 
devote^  servant  of  the  'Lord,"  whose  "long-  and  eventful 
life  of  four  score  and  six  years  has  been  mostly  spent  in 
faithful  and  successful  service  in  the  Christian  ministry." 
Dr.  Bascom  was  born  June  8,  1804,  in  Lebanon,  Conn.,  a 
town  remarkable  as  the  birthplace  of  many  noted  states- 
men, g-overnors,  judg-es,  divines  and  theolog-ians.  As  early 
as  1735  Rev.  Dr.  Wheelock,  afterward  president  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  was  pastor  of  the  church  in  "this  little 
country  tovv^n  on  the  rocky  hills  of  eastern  Connecticut." 
He  was  an  intimate  friend  and  co-worker  with  Whitefield, 
and,  as  a  preacher,  is  said  to  have  had  the  same  remark- 
able power  and  control  over  his  audiences.  Five  govern- 
ors of  the  State  of  Connecticut  were  born  at  Lebanon,  viz.: 
two  Jonathan  Trumbulls,  Joseph  Trumbull,  William  A. 
Buckingham  and  J.  Clark  Bissell.  "The  first  governor 
Trumbull,"  says  Dr.  Savage,  "was  the  'Brother  Jona- 
than' of  Revolutionary  fame,  the  right  hand  man  and-trusted 
counselor  of  Washington  during  all  that  terrible  struggle 
for  independence,  and  whose  influence  was  said  to  be  sec- 
ond only  to  that  of  Washington."  Among  the  eminent 
divines  and  theologians  whose  birthplace  was  Lebanon, 
we  find  the  names  of  Dr.  Joseph  Lyman,  Dr.  Eliphalet 
Williams,  Dr.  Elijah  Parish,  Dr.  R.  R.  Gurley,  Dr.  Will- 
liam  Lyman, 'Rev.  David  Huntington,  Rev.  Daniel  Hunting- 
ton, father  of  Bishop  Huntington,  of  central  New  York, 
Rev.  John  Bartlett,  and  many  others. 

Flavel  Bascom  entered  Yale  College  in  1824,  and  was 
graduated  in  1828.  Among  his  classmates  were  Prof.  Ben- 
jamin D.  Silliman,  Judge  O.  S.  Seymour,  Rev.  T.  S.  Clark, 
D.D.,  and  Hon.  Linus  Child.     His  theological  studies  were 


RKV.  P'LAVEL   BASCOM,  D.  D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  153 

pursued  at  the  Yale  Theologfical  Seminary,  from  which  he 
was  g-raduated  in  1832.  Hewasoneof  theband  of  Yale  grad- 
uates who,  in  1833,  came  as  Home  Missionaries  to  Illinois, 
entering-  the  state  at  its  upper  g-atewa)'-,  Chicag-o,  and 
afterward  founded  the  Illinois  Colleg-e  at  Jacksonville.  Mr. 
Bascom  found  in  Fort  Dearborn  Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter  and 
Rev.  Aratus  Kent,  a  heroic  missionary,  who  had  just  come 
over  to  Chicag-o  from  his  work  in  Galena,  and  who  after- 
ward wrote  to  the  secretary  of  the  Home  Society:  " If  the 
pier  now  commencing-  should  be  permanent  and  the  har- 
bor become  a  safe  one,  Chicag-o  will  undoubtedly  g-row  as 
rapidly  as  any  village  in  the  western  country." 

Dr.  Bascom's  first  pastorate  was  in  Tazewell  county, 
111.,  and  here  he  was  ordained  in  1833  as  an  evang-elist,  by 
the  Sang-amon  Presbytery.  During-  the  next  six  years  he 
labored  as  a  home  missionary,  org-anizing-  churches  and 
preaching-  in  Peoria,  Tremont  and  Pleasant  Grove. 

He  came  to  Chicag-o  in  the  autumn  of  1839,  as  ag-ent 
for  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society  for  the  state 
of  Illinois,  and  preached  for  a  time  to  the  people  of  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  after  the  departure  of  Dr. 
Blatchford.  This  resulted  in  a  call  being-  extended  to  him 
January  21,  1840,  to  become  the  pastor  of  the  church.  He 
accepted  this  invitation  with  the  understanding  that  he 
mig-ht  continue  his  missionary  labors  during  the  summer 
months.  As  a  result  he  was  not  installed  until  November 
11,  1840. 

The  first  five  years  of  Dr.  Bascom's  pastorate  in  Chi- 
cago, particularly  the  years  1841,  1843  and  1845,  were  dis- 
tinguished by  extensive  revivals  of  religion,  resulting  in 
the  addition  of  large  numbers  to  the  membership  of  the 
First  Church.  The  records  of  the  Presbytery  show  that 
in  1846  the  Society  had  456  members  on  its  rolls.  Within 
the  next  five  years,  in  consequence  of  the  bitter  dissen- 
sions among  the  members,  caused  by  the  discussion  of  the 
slavery  question,  the  membership  declined  nearly  one-half. 
The  population  and  wealth  of  the  city,  however,  increased 
enormously  during  the  nine  years  of  Dr.  Bascom's  pastor- 
ate.    When  he  began    his  labors  in  1840  the  population 


154  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

numbered  A^AI^^  increasing-  to  23,047  when  he  tendered 
his  resignation  nine  years  later.  As  a  consequence  of  this 
extraordinary  growth  of  the  city,  the  church  property  at 
the  corner  of  Clark  and  Washington  Streets  had  appre- 
ciated so  much  in  value  that  the  trustees  were  enabled  to 
mortgage  the  property  for  the  money  necessary  to  complete 
the  "Brick  Church."  At  the  dedicatory  services  of  the 
new  building  in  September,  1849,  Dr.  Bascom  preached  the 
sermon  from  the  text,  which  the  Rev.  Mr.  Sewell  used  at 
the  dedication  of  the  historic  Old  South  Church  in  Boston, 
Haggai  ii,  9:  "  The  glory  of  this  latter  house  shall  be 
greater  than  the  glory  of  the  former,  saith  the  Lord  of 
Hosts." 

Dr.  Bascom's  ministry  in  Chicago  terminated  in  De- 
cember, 1849,  he  being  dismissed  from  the  pastorate  at  his 
own  request.  "At  the  urgent  solicitation  of  friends  of 
Knox  College,  and  of  the  First  Church  of  Christ,  at  Gales- 
burg,  he  removed  there,  and  continued  as  the  pastor  of 
that  church  from  January  1,  1850,  to  May,  1855."  The 
following  year  he  again  took  up  missionary  work,  and  at 
the  close  of  this  agency  he  removed  to  Dover,  111.,  serving 
as  pastor  of  the  church  there  from  April  1,  1859,  to  April 
1,  1864.  The  establishment  of  Dover  Academy  was  one  of 
the  results  of  this  pastorate.  From  July,  1864,  until  Novem- 
ber, 1869,  he  was  pastor  of  the  church  in  Princeton,  111., 
removing  afterward  to  Hinsdale,  where  he  continued  to 
supply  the  Congregational  Church  from  time  to  time  until 
1887,  when  extreme  age  made  it  necessary  for  him  to  lay 
aside  the  burdens  of  a  regular  pastor.  Six  months  were 
spent  by  him  in  Montgomery,  Ala.,  in  happily  ministering 
to  a  colored  church  in  that  city.  "  Feeling  the  infirmities 
of  age,  he  returned  to  Princeton  to  be  near  his  son,  and  to 
end  his  life  work  among  his  former  parishioners,  whom  he 
loved,  and  by  whom  he  was  loved  and  honored."  Dr. 
Bascom  died  at  Princeton,  111.,  August  8,  1890. 


KEV.    HARVEY  CURTIS,   D.  D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS,  155 


REV.  HARVEY  CURTIS,  D.D.,  THIRD  PASTOR. 

Rev.  Harvey  Curtis,  D.D.,  the  son  of  Elisha  and  Resign 
(Clary)  Curtis,  was  born  in  Adams,  Jefferson  county, 
N.  Y.,  May  30,  1806.  He  was  educated  at  Middlebury 
Colleg-e,  Vermont,  g-raduating-  in  August,  1831,  with  the 
hig-hest  honors  of  his  class.  After  studying-  two  years  in 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  he  returned  to  Middle- 
bury  as  a  tutor.  In  1834  he  was  licensed  to  preach  by  the 
Presbytery  of  Troy,  N.  Y.,  and  in  the  spring  of  1835  be- 
came the  stated  supply  of  the  church  in  Whiting,  Vt. 
Later  in  that  year  he  was  ordained  by  the  Brandon  Con- 
gregational Association  as  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
Church  in  Brandon,  Vt.,  where  he  remained  until  1841, 
when  he  removed  to  Cincinnati  to  assumetheagency  of  the 
American  Home  Missionary  Society.  In  1843  he  accepted 
a  call  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Madison,  Ind., 
where  he  remained  until  the  call  came  to  him  from  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago. 

The  records  of  the  Session  contain  this  note,  under 
date  of  August  26,  1850: 

Session  met  and  opened  with  prayer  by  the  Rev.  Har- 
vey Curtis,  who  sat  as  moderator  for  the  first  time  after 
his  acceptance  of  the  pastoral  charge  of  this  church. 

Dr.  Curtis'  pastorate  in  Chicago  was  characterized  by 
unusual  acceptance  and  usefulness,  though  he  came  at  a 
critical  period  in  the  history  of  the  Society,  when  its 
property  was  incumbered  with  a  heavy  debt  and  its  mem- 
bership much  reduced  by  strife  and  dissension.  Subse- 
quent revivals,  under  his  earnest  ministrations,  added  large 
numbers  to  the  membership  of  the  church,  and  the  growth 
in  the  wealth  and  population  of  the  city  (23,000  in  1850  and 
97,000  in  1857)  enabled  the  Society  to  dispose  of  its  prop- 
erty to  advantage,  pay  its  debts,  and  secure  for  itself  a 
better  location  on  Wabash  Avenue. 


156  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

"  He  was  prevailed  upon  against  his  own  desires,"  says 
Dr.  Barrows,  "to  accept  the  presidency  of  Knox  Colleg-e, 
Galesburg-,  111.,  in  1858,  where  he  laboriously  and  honorably 
served  till  his  death,  September  18,  1862." 

Dr.  Joseph  F.  Tuttle,  president  of  Wabash  College,  in 
a  letter  to  Dr.  Barrows,  at  the  time  of  the  Jubilee  Services 
in  1883,  giving  some  recollections  of  Dr.  Curtis,  says: 

He  was  a  charming-  companion.  As  a  preacher  he  im- 
pressed me  with  the  feeling  that  he  v/as  very  sincere  and 
earnest.  He  was  an  able  preacher,  and  not  unfrequently 
truly  eloquent.  In  the  General  Assembly  he  was  a  fine 
debater,  clear,  earnest  and  master  of  himself.  He  shared 
in  the  great  debates  which  made  the  Assembly  (New 
School)  so  fascinating  and  aggressive,  especially  when 
slavery  and  the  subject  of  church  extension  and  home  mis- 
sions were  discussed.  Not  an  extremist,  he  was  strongly 
in  favor  of  the  plans  which  were  so  splendidly  fore- 
shadowed in  Dr.  Mills'  great  sermon  on  Home  Missions 
before  the  Assembly  at  Utica  in  1851. 

Dr.  Curtis,  when  I  first  saw  him,  was,  physically,  very 
vigorous;  he  had  a  good  presence,  a  ringing  and  manly 
voice,  an  easy  command  of  strong  English  words,  and 
an  air  of  earnestness  that  had  no  hint  of  affectation,  and 
that  made  him  a  strong  man  in  the  pulpit  and  on  the  floor 
of  an  ecclesiastical  assembly. 

Speaking  of  Dr.  Curtis'  pastorate  here,  Dr.  Humphrey 
says  : 

Though  his  church  was  more  than  once  sorely  tried 
during  his  administration,  he  conducted  it  through  its 
perils  with  consummate  wisdom,  and  left  it  a  strong  and 
harmonious  body. 

I  am  indebted  to  Mr.  Henry  M.  Curtis  for  the  excel- 
lent portrait  of  his  father  which  accompanies  this  article. 


REV.   ZKPHANIAH   MOOKE  HUMPHREY,   D.D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  157 


REV.  Z.  M.  HUMPHREY,  D.D.,   FOURTH 
R\STOR. 

While  collecting-  material  for  this  work,  I  wrote  to  Mrs. 
Humphrey,  asking  where  I  mig-ht  obtain  a  copy  of  the 
Memorial  Sketch  of  her  husband,  prepared  by  Rev.  David 
Torrey,  D.D.,  of  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.     In  her  reply  she  said: 

New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  24,  1899. 

It  is  as  if  a  hand  had  touched  the  strings  of  an  instru- 
ment which  had  stood  a  long-  time  silent,  to  have  you  ask  for 
a  copy  of  the  Memorial  of  my  dear  husband.  And  from 
what  source  would  I  so  like  to  have  the  touch  come  as  from 
the  dear  old  First  Church  of  Chicag-o,  the  Zion  to  which 
was  g-iven  the  freshest,  ripest  and  best  period  of  his 
ministry. 

The  Memorial  Sketch  is  an  affectionate  testimonial 
from  one  who  knev/  Dr.  Humphrey  well,  from  the  time  he 
entered  college  "  until  he  finished,  his  course  on  earth  and 
entered  into  rest."  ^ 

Zephaniah  Moore  Humphrey  was  born  November  30, 
1824,  at  Amherst,  Mass.,  and  was  named  in  honor  of  Dr. 
Zephaniah  Moore,  the  first  president  of  Amherst  Colleg-e. 
His  father.  Dr.  Heman  Humphrey,  was  at  that  time  it 
second  president. 

The  ancestors  of  Dr.  Humphrey,  both  on  his  father's 
and  mother's  side,  were  of  g-ood  New  Eng-land  stock.  In 
the  Humphrey  line  may  be  found  one  governor  of  Massa- 
chusetts, and  one  governor  of  the  New  Haven  colony — men 
whose  strong  characteristics  were  "  piety  and  integrity." 
Zephaniah's  paternal  grandmother  was  Hannah  Brown,  a 
direct  descendant  of  Peter  Brown,  who  came  over  in  the 
"  Mayflower  "  in  1620.  She  was  sister  of  Capt.  John  Brown, 
of  West  Simsbury,  Conn.,  and  he  was  father  of  John  Brown, 
of  Ossawatomie,  so  that  Zephaniah's  father  was  own  cousin 
to  John  Brown,  of  Ossawatomie.     Zephaniah's  mother  was 

1  Memorial  Sketch  of  Zephaniah  Moore  Humphrey,  by  David  Torrey.  Lippincott 
&.  Co.,  Philadelphia,  18S3.   Dr.  Torrey  died  September  29,  1894,  at  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 


158  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

Sophia  Porter,  daug^hter  of  Noah  Porter,  of  Farming-ton, 
Conn.  Her  brother,  Noah  Porter,  became  pastor  at 
Farming-ton,  honored  and  esteemed  in  a  pastorate  which 
covered  nearly  sixty  years.  Of  the  children  of  the  latter 
his  son,  Noah,  became  the  disting-uished  professor  of 
philosophy,  and  afterward  president  of  Yale  University, 
while  the  daug-hter, Sarah  Porter,^  was  for  thirty  years  pro- 
prietor and  beloved  principal  of  the  well  known  Farming-- 
ton  school  for  young-  ladies. 

The  years  of  Dr.  Humphrey's  childhood  were  passed 
at  Amherst,  among-  the  wooded  hills  of  the  Connecticut  val- 
ley, in  the  midst  of  a  panorama  of  natural  loveliness  and 
beauty,  scarcely  to  be  surpassed  in  the  whole  world. 

He  entered  Amherst  College  in  1839,  and  after  gradu- 
ation in  1843  spent  a  year  or  more  in  charg-e  of  a  select 
school  at  Crednal,  Loudon  county,  Va.  He  returned  north 
to  spend  a  year  at  Union  Seminary  before  going-  to  Andover 
in  1847,  where  he  came  under  the  guidance  of  that  prince 
of  teachers,  Professor  Park,  completing-  his  course  in  1849. 
In  1850  he  became  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Racine,  Wis.  On  April  20,  1853,  he  married  Miss  Har- 
riette  Sykes,  of  Westfield,  N.  Y.  In  1856  he  accepted  a 
call  to  the  Plymouth  Congregational  Church,  of  Milwaukee, 
remaining  there  until  he  began  his  work  in  Chicago. 

Dr.  Humphrey's  pastorate  in  Chicago  commenced 
May  15,  1859.  At  the  installation  services  on  Tuesday 
evening,  June  17,  Rev.  Yates  Hickey,  the  moderator, offered 
the  introductory  prayer,  read  the  Scripture  lesson  and 
propounded  the  usual  questions  to  the  pastor  and  people. 
Rev.  Henry  Neill,  of  Detroit,  preached  the  sermon  from 
the  text,  Romans  ix:  16,  17: 

So  then  it  is  not  of  him  that  willeth  nor  of  him  that 
runneth,  but  of  God  that  showeth  mercy. 

For  the  Scripture  saith  unto  Pharaoh,  Even  for  this 
same  purpose  have  I  raised  thee  up,  that  I  might  show  my 
power  in  thee,  and  that  My  name  might  be  declared  through- 
out all  the  earth. 

Rev.  Robert  W.  Patterson,  D.D.,  offered  the  installa- 
tion prayer.     The  charge  to  the  pastor  was  delivered  by 

1  Miss  Sarah  Porter  died  at  Farmington,  February  17,  1900,  aged  87  years. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  159 

Rev.  A.  L.  Brookes,  and  the  charg-e  to  the  people  by  Rev. 
Harvey  Curtis,  D.D. 

Dr.  Humphrey's  ministry  covered  the  entire  period  of 
the  Civil  War,  four  j^ears  of  intense  excitement  and  stirring- 
events. 

"The  pastor  of  the  First  Church,"  says  Dr.  Barrows, 
"was  not  found  wanting-  in  this  g-reat  national  emerg-ency; 
nor  were  its  members,  for  they  were  enrolled  among-  the 
nation's  defenders  and  among-  the  nation's  martyrs." 

After  nine  years  of  earnest,  blessed  work,  Dr.  Hum- 
phrey tendered  his  resig-nation  for  reasons  which  were  set 
forth  in  a  letter  read  to  the  congreg-ation  Monday  evening-, 
February  3,  1868: 

Dear  People:  Grace  be  unto  you,  and  peace  from  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  It  is  with  unfeigned  reg-ret,  that  I  lay 
before  you  my  request  that  you  will  unite  with  me  in  ask- 
ing the  Presbytery  of  Chicag-o  to  dissolve  the  ecclesiastical 
ties  which  now  subsist  between  us;  our  present  relations  to 
cease  with  the  last  Sabbath  of  February. 

It  is  now  nearly  nine  years  since  I  became  your  pastor, 
and  I  may  truly  say,  that  while  those  years  have  consti- 
tuted a  period  of  prosperity  to  the  church,  they  have  been 
as  full  of  happiness  to  me  as  you  could  make  them.  The 
cordiality  with  which  you  welcomed  me  at  first  has  been 
more  than  sustained.  I  have  long-  felt  sure,  not  only  of  your 
interest,  but  also  of  your  love.  Until  within  a  few  months, 
I  had  cherished  no  thoug-ht  or  wish  to  leave  you. 

The  pastor  then  referred  to  the  call  he  had  received 
from  Calvary  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  and  the  health  of  a 
beloved  member  of  his  family  which  had  been  seriously  im- 
paired during-  the  previous  winter  by  the  rig-orous  climate 
of  Chicago,  for  whom  a  further  residence  in  this  city  would 
be  hazardous. 

I  at  once  communicated  these  facts  and  my  impres- 
sions to  your  Session  and  promised  to  visit  the  church 
which  had  called  me.  My  reception,  my  observations  and 
inquiries,  were  most  satisfactory,  and  left  but  little  doubt 
in  my  mind  that  a  removal  to  Philadelphia  would  promote 
the  health  and  lengthen  the  life  so  dear  to  me  and  of  so 
much  consequence  to  my  work. 

May  God  bless  you  for  the  past,  and  send  you  a  pastor 
around  whom   you  will  gather  with  the   unanimity  with 


160  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

which  you  have  g-athered  around  me  and  mine,  and  who 
will  do  far  more  for  your  spiritual  prosperity  than  I  have 
been  able  to  accomplish. 

Dr.  Humphrey  removed  to  Philadelphia  in  the  autumn 
of  1868  and  remained  there  seven  years  as  pastor  of  Calvary 
Church.  When  the  General  Assembly  met  in  the  First 
Church  of  Chicago  in  May,  1870,  Dr.  Humphrey  was 
chosen  moderator.  In  September,  1875,  he  entered  on  the 
duties  of  professor  of  "  Ecclesiastical  History  and  Church 
Polity  "  in  Lane  Theolog-ical  Seminary  at  Cincinnati,  con- 
tinuing- there  until  his  lamented  death,  which  occurred  No- 
vember 13,  1881.  Dr.  Humphrey  was  buried  in  Graceland 
Cemetery,  Chicag-o. 


Ki:V.  ARTHUR   MITCHELL,  D.D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  161 


REV.  ARTHUR  MITCHELL,  D.D.,  FIFTH 
PASTOR. 

Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.  was  born  at  Hudson,  N.  Y., 
Aug-ust  13,  1835.  After  his  graduation  from  Williams  Col- 
leg-e  in  Aug-ust,  1853,  he  was  engaged  one  year  as  tutor  at 
Lafayette  Colleg-e  in  Easton,  Pa.  He  then  devoted  one 
year  or  more  to  foreign  travel. 

His  theological  studies  were  pursued  at  Union  Theo- 
logical Seminai-y,  entering  in  1856  and  graduating  in  1859. 
He  then  accepted  a  call  to  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church, 
of  Richmond,  Va.,  where  he  remained  until  May,  1861. 
He  was  married  October  9,  1859,  to  Miss  Harriet  E.  Post. 
The  following-  letter  from  Rev.  P.  B.  Price,  who  succeeded 
Dr.  Mitchell  at  Richmond,  gives  an  interesting-  account  of 
his  work  while  in  the  south: 

Roanoke,  Va.,  June  9,  1899. 

Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell  entered  upon  his  duties  as  pastor 
of  the  Third  Church,  of  Richmond,  on  the  last  Sabbath  in 
May,  1859,  and  continued  in  this  relation  till  the  27th  of 
June,  1861,  when  he  returned  to  New  York  City. 

During-  this  time  I  resided  within  the  bounds  of  the  con- 
g-regation,  of  which  I  afterward  succeeded  him  as  pastor. 

His  preaching-  and  his  pastoral  work,  his  social  quali- 
ties and  his  zeal  and  diligence  attracted  much  attention 
from  the  beginning-  of  his  ministry;  the  church  grew  and 
prospered  under  his  care.  His  voice  and  manner  in 
preaching  were  pleasing,  and  his  sermons  gave  evidence  of 
careful  preparation.  The  Spirit  attended  the  word  spoken 
by  him,  the  people  sustained  him  by  their  sympathies  and 
prayers,  and  through  the  blessing  of  God  upon  his  faithful 
labors  in  private  as  well  as  upon  his  sermons,  there  were 
frequent  professions  of  faith  and  additions  to  the  church. 
He  was  distinguished  for  conscientiousness  in  the  per- 
formance of  all  his  duties,  and  would  make  important  sacri- 
fices for  conscience'  sake. 

Under  this  influence  he  reached  the  conclusion  that  he 
ought  to  spend  his  vacation  in  preaching  to  the  destitute, 
rather  than  in  idle  rest,  for  recreation.  He  went  away  in 
the  summer  to  southwest  Virginia  and  preached  in  pro- 
tracted services  to  some  obscure  people  in  Grayson  county. 


162  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

His  labors  were  blessed,  and  the  people  showed  that  he  had 
won  their  affection  and  excited  their  gratitude.  The  breth- 
ren of  the  Presbytery  were  warmly  attached  to  him. 

After  he  left  Richmond  I  visited  him  in  Morristown, 
N.  J.,  in  1866,  where  he  was  pastor  of  a  larg-e  and  impor- 
tant church,  and  was  much  esteemed.  He  told  me  that  he 
was  preaching-  there  the  same  simple  Gospel  sermons  that 
he  had  preached  in  Richmond. 

I  had  the  use  of  Mr.  Mitchell's  library  until  I  could 
send  it  to  him  after  the  war.  It  abounded  in  evidences  of 
his  studious  and  pious  habits. 

When  he  came  to  Richmond,  soon  after  the  war,  he  left 
with  me  $200  to  be  distributed  among-  those  of  the  congre- 
gation who  were  in  need  at  that  time;  some  were  in  this 
condition  who  had  not  known  the  ills  of  poverty  before. 

Dr.  Mitchell's  next  pastorate  was  with  the  South  Street 
Presbyterian  Church,  of  Morristown,  N.  J.  Here  he 
labored  from  October,  1861,  until  he  began  his  work  in 
Chicago  in  the  autumn  of  1868. 

In  his  letter  of  acceptance  to  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago,  dated  August  24,  1868,  he  says: 

I  accept  the  call  which  you  have  tendered  me  to  be- 
come your  pastor.  It  is  with  many  fears,  lest  I  shall  prove 
insufficient  for  so  great  a  work;  but  relying  on  your  effect- 
ive co-operation  and  on  the  aid  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and, 
praying  for  that  "sufficiency  which  is  of  God,"  I  am  will- 
ing to  undertake  the  sacred  task. 

I  hope  to  remove  to  Chicago  by  the  middle  of  October, 
but  doubt  whether  I  shall  be  able  to  enter  fully  upon  the 
labors  of  my  pastorate  before  the  first  of  November.  If  it 
is  possible  for  me  to  do  so  earlier,  I  will.  Upon  one  point 
allow  me  a  frank,  plain  word.  I  fear  that  in  a  congregation 
of  the  size  of  yours  I  shall  not  be  able  to  maintain  that  system 
of  general  visitation  which  some  pastors  have  the  strength 
to  observe,  and  which  I  know  is  of  the  utmost  usefulness. 

Pray,  dear  brothers,  that  God  may  be  my  daily  wis- 
dom and  strength,  and  that  I  may  come  to  you  in  the  full- 
ness of  the  blessing  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  May  g^race 
and  peace  be  multiplied  unto  you  all. 

Dr.  Mitchell  preached  his  first  sermon  as  pastor  of  our 
church  October 25,  1868,  from  Isaiah  Ixiv:  6:  "But  we  are 
all  as  an  unclean  thing,  and  all  our  righteousnesses  are  as 
filthy  rags."     He  was  installed  November  10,  1868. 

It  was  my  privilege  to  hear  him  for  the  first  time  on  a 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  163 

Sunday  morning*  soon  after  his  installation.  When  the 
hour  for  opening  divine  service  had  arrived,  the  new  pastor 
came  promptly  into  the  pulpit — a  slig-htly  built  man,  about 
five  feet  six  inches  in  heig"ht,  with  dark  brown  hair,  mous- 
tache and  eyes,  and  a  kindly,  earnest  face,  which  fairly 
glowed  with  enthusiasm  as  he  became  interested  in  his 
subject.  The  sermon  that  day  was  on  cong-reg-ational 
sing-ing,  how  to  promote  it,  how  to  elevate  it;  a  subject 
with  which  the  preacher,  a  g-ood  singer  himself,  was  per- 
fectly familiar,  and  which  he  handled  ably  and  skillfully. 
Dr.  Mitchell  believed  that  much  of  the  music  used  in  church 
worship  should  be  of  a  kind  in  which  the  congregation 
could  take  a  hearty  part.  The  minister  spoke  simply  and 
unaffectedly,  without  anyattempt  at  oratory;  but  there  were 
few  in  the  congregation  that  morning  who  did  not  go  away 
fully  convinced  that  here  was  a  man  of  whose  sincerity 
and  piety  there  could  not  be  the  slightest  question:  ele- 
ments of  his  character  which  afterward  won  for  him  the 
respect  and  esteem  of  all  the  people  in  this  city. 

Dr.  Mitchell  always  took  a  great  interest  in  municipal 
reform;  he  attended  the  primaries  regularly,  worked  at 
the  polls,  and  often  preached  from  the  pulpit  on  the  re- 
sponsibilities and  obligations  of  citizens  in  such  matters. 
The  scenes  in  connection  with  the  ballot  box  stuffing  at 
the  South  Town  election,  April  4,  1876,  which  he  wit- 
nessed with  other  citizens,  and  the  outburst  of  popular 
indignation  when  three  disreputable  candidates  declared 
themselves-elected  collector,  assessor  and  town  clerk — all 
these  matters  will  be  recalled.  When  the  election  of  these 
men  was  contested  by  a  citizens'  committee  before  the  jus- 
tices of  the  peace  of  the  South  Town  on  April  15,  the  evi- 
dence of  the  witnesses  showed  conclusively  that  the  ballot 
boxes  had  been  tampered  with;  the  statement  of  Dr. 
Mitchell  was  particularly  clear  and  positive.  The  court 
decided  accordingly,  declaring  that  there  was  no  valid 
election  and  that  vacancies  existed  in  the  of&ces  of  col- 
lector, assessor  and  town  clerk. 

The  Chicago  Tribune  of  April  17  said  of  Dr.  Mitchell's 
action  in  this  election: 


164  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

Rev.  Arthur  Mitchell,  D.D.,  "the  little  dominie"  of  ad- 
mirable resources  in  connection  with  the  recent  stirring- 
events  in  the  South  Town,  preached  yesterday  in  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  on  the  duties  of  Christian  citizens  in 
the  present  crisis.  A  clerg-yman  who  knows  how  to  act, 
oug-ht  to  know  how  to  preach  about  an  emerg-ency. 

Among- the  important  sermons  of  Dr.  Mitchell  was  that 
on  systematic  g-iving,  entitled  "The  King-'s  Business,"  on 
the  text,  I  Cor.  xvi:  1,  2:  "  Now  concerning  the  collection 
for  the  saints,  as  I  have  given  order  to  the  churches  of  Ga- 
latia,  even  so  do  ye,"  delivered  from  the  pulpit  of  this 
church  January  19,  1879.  This  sermon  resulted  in  estab- 
lishing- the  system  of  annual  pledg-es  and  weekly  offering's, 
for  the  various  benevolent  causes. 

In  Aug-ust,  1880,  the  pastor  accepted  a  call  from 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and 
preached  his  farewell  sermon  in  Chicag-o  October  17,  1880. 

He  resigned  his  pastorate  in  Cleveland  to  accept  the 
position  of  secretary  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  en- 
tering- on  his  duties  in  New  York  City  July  4,  1884.  Few 
men  were  better  informed  on  the  work  of  foreig-n  missions 
than  Dr.  Mitchell.  It  had  been  with  him  a  subject  of  care- 
ful, earnest  study  from  the  commencement  of  his  ministry, 
and  he  knew  the  needs  and  resources  of  the  Board  and  the 
work  in  the  mission  fields,  as  he  knew  his  Bible. 

In  July,  1889,  he  started,  under  the  appointment  of  the 
Board,  to  visit  the  mission  stations  in  Japan,  Korea,  China, 
Siam  and  Syria,  returning-  to  New  York  City  in  July  of  the 
following-  year.  While  on  that  tour  he  was  taken  seriously 
ill  in  Siam,  and  several  months  elapsed  before  he  could 
resume  work;  the  Board  accordingly  requested  him  not  to 
begin  his  duties  in  New  York  City  until  October,  1890.  In 
the  spring-  of  1892,  his  health  again  showing  symptoms  of 
giving  way,  the  Board  allowed  him  a  vacation  of  three 
months  for  a  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast,  where  he  regained 
a  fair  amount  of  vigor.  In  November  of  that  year  he  went 
to  Florida  by  the  advice  of  his  physician,  returning  north 
early  in  the  following  year.  His  death  occurred  at  Sara- 
toga, N.  Y.,  April  24,  1893.  His  last  public  address  was  at 
Albany  in  October,  1892,  before  the  Synod  of  New  York. 


KEV.    JOHN    HKNRY    BARROWS,    D.  D. 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  165 


REV.  JOHN   HENRY  BARROWS,  D.D., 
SIXTH  PASTOR. 

Rev.  John  Henry  Barrows,  D.D.,  was  born  July  11, 
1847,  in  Medina,  Lenawee  county,  Mich.  His  parents 
were  Rev.  John  M.  Barrows,  afterward  professor  of  natural 
sciences  in  Olivet  Colleg-e,  Mich,,  and  Catherine  Payne 
Moore,  an  early  g-raduate  of  Oberlin  Colleg-e.  He  united 
with  the  church  in  Olivet  in  1863,  and  was  g-raduated  from 
Olivet  College  in  June,  1867.  After  studying-  one  year  in 
Yale  Theolog-ical  Seminary  and  one  year  in  Union  The- 
ological vSeminary,  Dr.  Barrows  went  to  Osag-e  county, 
Kan.,  remaining-  there  two  and  a  half  years,  doing-  home 
missionary  and  educational  work.  He  then  preached  one 
year  or  more  to  the  Cong-reg-ational  Church  in  Spriug-lield, 
111.,  and  after  a  year  abroad  and  five  months  of  study  at 
Andover  Theolog-ical  SemJnary,  he  was  settled  in  1875  as 
pastor  over  the  Eliot  Cong-regational  Church,  of  Lav/rence, 
Mass.,  where  he  labored  nearly  six  years.  In  December, 
1880,  he  was  installed  over  the  Maverick  Church,  of  East 
Boston,  Mass.,  from  which  he  was  called  in  1881,  to  the 
First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicag-o. 

During"  the  fourteen  years  of  his  pastorate  in  Chicag-o, 
1,200  members  were  received  into  the  church  and  Railroad 
Chapel,  of  which,  for  so  many  years.  Rev.  Charles  M.  Mor- 
ton was  the  faithful  minister.  In  all  missionary  and  reform 
work,  in  every  enterprise  for  bettering-  the  civic  life  of 
Chicag-o,  Dr.  Barrow^s  always  took  an  active  part.  He  is 
among-  the  most  noted  speakers  of  this  country,  whether 
before  missionary,  temperance  or  Christian  Endeavor  con- 
ventions, or  on  the  lecture  platform.  His  address  on 
"America,"  given  at  the  opening  of  the  Spring-  Palace, 
Fort  Wayne,  Tex.,  before  the  Presbyterian  Social  Union^ 
of  St.  Louis,  and  before  the  Synod  of  Indiana,  rings  with 
patriotism,  and  is  a  powerful  argument  in  support  of  Home 


166  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

Missions.  His  lectures  on  "Samuel  Adams,"  "James 
Russell  Lowell,"  "Hug-h  Miller,"  "John  Stuart  Mill," 
"Shakespeare,"  "Wendell  Phillips"  and  "Jerusalem," 
have  been  delivered  in  many  parts  of  this  country. 

Among  the  notable  sermons  preached  to  the  people 
of  the  First  Church,  which,  afterward  published,  had  a 
wide  circulation,  are  those  on:  "The  Perfection  of  the 
Bible,"  "The  Nation  and  the  Soldier,"  "The  Nation's 
Hope,"  "Religion  the  Motive  Power  in  Human  Progress," 
"  Christian  Manhood,"  "Reason  in  Temperance,"  "Christ 
and  the  Poor,"  "  Martin  Luther,"  "  Christian  Hospitals," 
"  The  V/orld  of  Books,"  "Municipal  Patriotism,"  "Saving- 
Our  Country,"  "Glorifying  God"  and  "Eternal  Enjoy- 
ment." 

The  Pnlpit  Treasury,  of  New  York,  June,  1884,  says 
of  Dr.  Barrows: 

His  peculiar  function  is  to  preach.  It  is  at  the  altar 
his  lips  are  touched.  His  extraordinai-y  gifts  are  all 
arranged  along  the  line  of  power  in  spoken  speech.  His 
sentences  are  polished  shafts.  Even  his  voice,  which  is 
of  a  rich  and  peculiarly  resonant  quality,  contributes 
toward  magical  effect.  There  is  something  magnetic 
about  his  personal  appearance.  He  is  noticeably  tall  and 
lithe  in  form.  His  physique,  at  first  sight,  does  not  indi- 
cate such  enormous  endurance  as  he  seems  to  possess. 
Perhaps  no  preacher  in  America  carries  a  heavier  min- 
isterial responsibility. 

The  parliament  of  religions,  which  met  in  Chicago 
during  the  World's  Fair,  was  organized  by  Dr.  Barrows, 
as  a  plan  for  bringing  together  in  one  assembly  "  rep- 
resentatives of  all  the  great  historical  faiths  in  the  world 
— Brahmans,  Buddhists,  Moslems,  Parsees,  Confucians, 
Jews  and  the  great  churches  of  Christendom."  In  this 
work  he  had  the  cordial  assistance  of  religious  leaders  in 
every  part  of  the  world. 

One  direct  outcome  of  this  religious  convention  was 
the  founding  by  Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Haskell  of  a  lecture 
course  at  the  University  of  Chicago,  with  an  income  suffi- 
cient to  provide  a  series  of  lectures  in  India,  on  the  rela- 
tions of  Christianitv  and  other  religions  ;  these  lectures  to 


LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS.  167 

be  g-iven  in  the  large  cities  of  India.     Dr.  Barrows  was  in- 
vited by  Mrs.  Haskell  to  open  this  course  of  lectures. 

Realizing-  that  his  heart  was  in  this  new  and  broader 
j5eld  of  work,  to  which  he  had  been  called,  and  that  a 
change  of  scene  and  labor  would  be  to  his  benefit.  Dr.  Bar- 
rows tendered  his  letter  of  resignation  Sunday  morning, 
November  25,  1896  : 

I  desire  to  present  to  you  this  morning  a  communica- 
tion similar  to  the  one  I  have  already  offered  to  the  Session. 
Fourteen  years  and  morejhave  elapsed  since  the  call  to  the 
pastorship  of  this  church  was  placed  in  my  hands.  In  ac- 
cepting that  call  I  was  clear  as  to  my  duty.  The  acquaint- 
ance which  I  have  had  with  this  company  of  Christians  has 
only  deepened  my  affection  for  the  mother  church  of  Chi- 
cago. Its  history,  benevolence,  its  devotion  to  the  kingdom 
of  Christ  and  that  spirit  of  unity  which  has  marked  its  life, 
are  widely  known  and  honored.  Among  the  ministers  of 
this  church  I  have  served  you  longest. 

But  the  time  has  now  come  when  I  am  clear  in  my 
judgment  that  I  am  called  of  God  to  resign  this  charge  in 
order  that  I  may  have  the  privilege  of  establishing  the 
Christian  work  in  India,  to  which  I  have  been  providentially 
summoned.  It  is  my  purpose  and  hope  in  December,  1896, 
to  go  to  Bombay,  Calcutta  and  Madras  to  deliver  courses  of 
Christian  lectures,  to  which  I  have  been  appointed  by  the 
University  of  Chicago,  and  to  which  invitations  have  been 
extended  by  several  missionary  conferences  and  by  many 
men  of  wisdom  and  influence  in  the  East. 

I  do  not  need  to  reaffirm  my  faith  in  the  great  and  use- 
ful future  of  this  church.  The  workmen  change,  but  the 
work  goes  on.  My  loving  interest  in  this  people  will  be 
unabated  and  abiding.  It  is  no  easy  thing  to  sever  ties  of 
such  strength  and  preciousness, — ties  which  have  never 
been  so  strong  as  during  this  last  j^ear  of  my  ministry 
among  you.  Your  kindnesses  in  joy  and  sorrow  have  been 
numberless  and  will  always  be  gratefully  cherished. 

In  whatever  part  of  the  one  field,  which  is  the  world, 
my  lot  may  be  cast,  wherever,  in  the  providence  of  God,  I 
may  continue  my  life  work  of  preaching  the  Gospel  of 
Christ,  the  strong  affection  which  I  cherish  for  this  church 
and  community  will  be  continued. 

Dr.  Barrows'  last  service  in  this  church  as  its  pastor 
was  on  Sunday  morning,  February  16,  1897.  He  passed 
the  summer  and  autumn  in  Germany,  preparing  for  his 


168  LIVES  OF  THE  PASTORS. 

work  in  India,  and  the  winter  of  1897  and  1898,  delivering-  a 
course  of  lectures  on  the  Christian  religion  in  Bombay, 
Calcutta  and  Madras.  Since  his  return  to  Chicago,  in  May, 
1898,  he  has  broug-ht  out  three  works:  "Christianity,  the 
World's  Religion,"  "A  World  Pilgrimage"  and  the  "Chris- 
tian Conquest  of  Asia"  (1899). 

At  a  special  meeting-  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Oberlin  CoUeg-e,  held  November  29, 1898,  Dr.  Barrows  was 
unanimously  elected  president  of  the  institution.  He 
entered  on  the  duties  of  his  office  January  4,  1899. 


POSTLUDE. 

The  history  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chi- 
cag-o,  as  given  in  these  pages,  treats  chiefly  of  the  growth 
of  the  Society  and  of  matters  of  immediate  interest  per- 
taining to  the  services,  v^ithout  touching  on  other  depart- 
ments of  its  work,  such  as  the  Sunday  School,  the  Rail- 
road Mission  and  the  various  missionary  and  benevolent 
organizations  sustained  by  the  church — a  field  which  has 
been  of  great  import  in  its  life,  but  for  which  exhaustive 
resources  are  not  at  hand. 

In  the  articles  on  choirs  and  psalmody  I  have  by  no 
means  intended  to  oifer  a  scientific  essay  on  the  develop- 
ment of  church  music.  Aside  from  giving  some  informa- 
tion regarding  persons  and  events  comparatively  little 
known,  I  have  confined  myself  to  an  outline  of  the  prog- 
ress in  the  musical  part  of  divine  worship,  since  the  time 
when  our  fathers  and  mothers  sang  in  the  choir. 

If,  in  presenting  the  growth  of  this  venerable  Society, 
"The  Church  on  the  Frontier,"  "whose  life  and  influ- 
ence," as  Dr.  Barrows  says,  "has  run  parallel  with  the 
strenuous  and  widely  expanding  life  of  a  city  which  has  in 
a  generation  and  a  half  become  one  of  the  chief  commer- 
cial centers  of  the  world,"  I  have  added  any  facts  which 
will  be  held  dear  by  the  present  generation,  and  which 
would  otherwise  have  faded  into  oblivion,  I  shall  feel  that 
my  task  has  not  been  entirely  in  vain. 


169 


OFFICERS. 

•1900. 
Rev.  W.  J.  Chichester,  D.D.,  Pastor. 

ELDERS. 

Franklest  Ames.  Hamilton  Borden. 

Samuel  Baker.  Henry  W.  Dudley. 

Addison  Ballard.  Henry  H.  Hunger. 

Charles  L.  Bingham.  Henry  D.  Penfield. 

William  H.  Swift. 

deacons. 

Charles  Alling,  Jk.  Earl  C.  Greenman. 

Henry  M.  Bacon.  William  A.  Magie. 

Walter  Frazer  Brown.  George  W.  S.  Matheson. 

Tracey  C.  Drake.  Josiah  W.  Perrine. 

Alexander  H.  Seelye. 

trustees. 

William  H.  Swift.  Marshall  Field. 

Caryl  Young.  William  E.  Kelley. 

Tracey  C.  Drake. 

committee  on  music. 

Philo  a.  Otis.  William  H.  Swift. 

Charles  D.  Irwin. 

sexton. 
Charles  Hugo  Koehring. 


170 


ERRATA. 


Page  34,  30th  line.     For  "Lorena,"  read,  "Lurena.  " 

Page  34,  31st  line.     For  '-Adella,"  read,  "Delia." 

Page  53,  30th  line.     Read,  "Mrs.  F.  A.  Thomas,   Miss  Jessica 

Haskell  and  Mrs.  J.  Schmahl." 

Page  55,  3rd  line.     For  "Januar3'  1,  1876,"  read,  "January  9, 

1876." 

Page  55,  11th  line.     For   "January   1,  1877,"   read,    "February 

18,  1877." 

Pages  72,  73,  74,  75.     For  "Mrs.  Katherine  Fi.sk,"  read,  "Mrs. 

Katharine  Fisk. " 


ADDENDUM. 


Mrs.  Antoinette  Whitlock  Freer,  widow  of  the  late  Mr.  L.  C.  P. 
Freer,  died  Sunday,  March  11,  1900.  She  was  received  into  the 
membership  of  the  First  Church,  April  5,  1845,  and  at  the  time  of  her 
death  was  the  oldest  living  member. 


171 


INDEX, 


Adams,  Rev.  J.  W.,  D.D.,  14. 

Adams,  Deacon  Philo,  10. 

Allen,  W.  T.,  29. 

Allen,  Rev.  Dr.  (of  Freadmen's 
Board).  66. 

Ailing,  John,  63. 

Anderson,  Rev.  E.,  6,  36,  37,  85. 

Anderson,  Rev.  Rufus,  D.D..  36. 

Atterbury,  Rev.  J.  G.,  27,  28. 

Bacon,  Rev.  L.,  D.D,,  79. 

Ballard,  Addison,  9. 

Barber,  Jabez,  19. 

Barker,  J.  N.,  43. 

Barrows,  Rev.  J.  H.,  D.D.,  5,  6,  17, 
59,  60,  62,  63,  64,  (!5,  6(5.  68,  70,  71, 
72,  73,  74,  76,  79,  80,  81,  83,  85,  87, 
88,  92,  93,  98,  142,  156,  159,  165. 

Barrows,  John  M.,  79. 

Barrows,  Rev.  W.  M. ,  D.D.,  65. 

Bartlett,  A.  C,  63. 

Bartlett,  Rev.  W.  A.,  D.D.,  67. 

Bascom,  Rev.  Flavel,  D.D.,  15,  17, 
18,  21,  22,  56,  64,  68,  111,  123,  152, 
153,  154. 

Beaubien's  Hotel,  17. 

Beecher,  Rev.  H.  W.,  65,  139. 

Benedict,  Amzi,  20,  25. 

Bissell,  Geo.  F.,  43,  44,  45.  63,  84. 

Blackburn,  Rev.  W.  M.,  D.D.,  55. 

Blatchford,  E.  W.,  5,  144. 

Blatchford,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  6,  15, 
16,  144,  145,  146,  147,  148,  149. 

Bliss,  P.  P..  54. 

Bolles,  Peter,  14. 

Bostwick,  C.  O.,  6. 

Bostwick,  Emma  G.,  117. 

Botsford,  Henry,  95. 

Bowen,  F.  A.,  47. 

Boying-ton,  W.  W.,  25. 

Bristol,  Rev.  Frank,  63,  64,  66. 

Bristol,  R.  C,  19. 

Brooks,  J.  P.,  29. 

Brookes,  Samuel,  21. 

Brown,  J.  H.,  26. 

Brown,  Rufus,  17. 

Brown,  W.  H.,  14,  17. 

Burchard,  Rev.  Dr.,  27. 

Burnham,  Rev.  Mr.,  58. 

Calvary  Presbyterian  Church,  5; 
organization,  32 ;  members  of 
church  and  cong-regation,  33,  34, 
35;  choir,  45,  46,  47;  edifices,  36, 
37,  40,  41. 


Calvary  Church,   Philadelphia,   29. 
Carpenter,   Philo,  17,  119. 
Carville,  32. 
Central  Music  Hall,  services  begin, 

63. 
Chambers,  Mr.   and  Mrs.  B.  B.,  33, 

86. 
Chamberlain,  F.  V.,  28,  104. 
Chappell,  Miss  Eliza,  11. 
Cheney,  Rt.  Rev.  C.  E.,  D.D.,  64. 
Chichester,   Rev.  W.  J.,  D.D.,  6,  93, 
94,  95,  96,  97,  99,  102,  103,  104,  105. 
Choir,  First  Church. 
First  Leaders,  121. 
First  Quartette,  118. 
Members   prior   to  1857,  ill,   121, 

122,  123. 
Members  from  1857  to  1371,   116, 

119,  120. 
Organists   from  1857  to  1871,  115, 

118,  119,  120. 
Members  from  1871  to  1900  : 
Sopranos,  regular: 

Aiken,  Miss  Fannie,  71,  72,  74. 
Aikman,  Miss  H.  E.,  90. 
Aldrich,    Mrs.    W.    H.     (Mae 

French),  48,  52,  58,  59,  61. 
Buckbee,  Mrs.  J.  C,  55,  64. 
Butler,   Miss  Esther,    55,   61, 

69,  71. 
Chenejs  Mrs.  R.  L.,  54. 
Crocker,  'Miss   E.  M.,  55. 
Davis,  Miss  Carrie,  67,  68. 
GiiTord,  Miss   Electa,   74,    75, 

76,  78,  80,  82,  83,  87,  90. 
Gurler,  Miss  L.  M.,  91,  94. 
Haskell,  Miss  J.,  53,  54. 
Schmahl,  Mrs.  J.,  53. 
Trimble,   Mrs.   C.   G.,  91,  94, 

96,  99,  101. 
Whitney,  Miss  Fannj''  L.,  55. 
Sopranos,    occasional    and    as- 
sisting: 
Arters,  Mrs.  E.  P.,  75,  76. 
Baldwin,  Miss  G.  M.,  69,  72. 
Beidler,  Mrs.  A.  W.,  87,  89,  90, 

91. 
Butler,  Miss  Bessie,  70. 
Carlson,  Mrs.  P.  R.,  70. 
Chappel,  Miss  Grace,  94. 
Davis,  MissM.  L.,  73,  75. 
Dudley,    Miss    Grace   E.,  91, 
92,  94,  98,  103,  105. 


173 


174 


INDEX. 


Sopranos,  occasional  and  as- 
sisting-.— Cot!  tinned: 

Dunlap,  Miss  E.,  93,  101. 

Easter,  Miss  M.,  89. 

Etting-er,  Miss  Alice,  83. 

Evans,  Mrs.  W.  J.,  77,  81, 
101,  105. 

Foreman,  Miss  Dora  B. ,  63. 

Gifford,  Miss  G.,  80. 

Goodman,  Miss  E.  M.,  93,  94, 
95. 

Goodwin,  Miss  Edith,  95. 

Hansel,  Miss  May,  105. 

Hatheway,  Miss  L.  E.,  99. 

Henderson,  Miss  F.  H.,  69,  71. 

Hiltz,  Miss  Grace,  71. 

Hinman,  Miss  Lillie,  69. 

Hotchkin,  Miss,  87. 

Hvale,  MissN.,  105. 

Jenks,  Miss  Jessica,  59,  61, 
63,  69,  80,  81,  83,  87,  89,  90, 
91   92   93    94. 

Joslynr'Mrs.  D.  C,  70. 

Keller,  Miss  May,  76,  77,  78. 

Mallory,  Miss  H.,  95. 

Martens,  Mrs.  R.  S.,  82. 

McCord,  Miss  A.,  58. 

Munson,  Miss  Sarah,  101. 

Pomeroy,  Miss  M.  L. ,  78. 

Pine,  Mrs.  F.  G.,  101. 

Prentiss,   Mrs.  L,  M.,  59,  61. 

Randall,  Miss  L.   E.,   73,  75, 

76,  82,  83,  90,  91. 
Rhodes,  Mrs.  C.  W.,  69. 
Russell,  Miss  J.  F.,  81. 
Sheib,  Mrs.  A.  M.,  64. 
Sperry,  Miss  M.  P.,  64. 
Stein,  Miss  Pauline,  82. 
Thomson,  Miss  Mary  P.,  105. 
Wallace,  Miss  Kittie,  61. 
Williams,  Miss  F.  M.,  64. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  P.  B.,  80. 
Wilson,  Miss  Ruth,  95. 

Altos,  regular : 

Custer,    Mrs.  J.   R.    (Ella  A. 

White),  53,  58. 
Dreier,    Mrs.   Christine  Niel- 

son,  67,  68,  69,  71,  72,  73,  76, 

77,  78,  80,  82,  83,  84,  91,  92, 
94,  95,  97,  98,  99,  101,  104, 
105. 

Fisk,  Mrs.  Katharine,  72,  78, 

74,  75. 
French,  Miss  A.,  49,  51,  52. 
Hawkes,  Miss,  48. 
Johnson,  Mrs.   O.  K.,  48,    49, 

51,  52,  54,  76,  85,  111. 
Kempton,Mrs.  J.  T.,  .56,  68,64. 
Remmer,  Mrs.  O.,  87. 


Altos,  occasional  and  assisting: 
Allen,  Miss  L.  B.,  69. 
Bag-g-,  Mrs.  F.  S.,  61. 
Balfour,  Mrs.  J.  A.,  59. 
Barnes,  MissE.  M.,  101. 
Bilton,  Miss  Rose,  73,  75,  76, 

77,  78,  SO,  81,  82,  83,  87,  89, 

90,  91. 
Elish,  Miss  Louise,  94. 
Burton,  Mrs.  Helen,  99. 
Campbell,  Miss  Bessie,  95. 
Campbell,  Miss  Florence,  95. 
Carpenter,  Miss  E.,  91. 
Clarke,  Miss  A.  H.,  82,  83,  87. 
Clark,  Miss  J.,  105. 
Coffey,  Miss  A.,  59. 
Cox,  Mrs.  Agnes,  69,  70,  71. 
Edmands,  Miss  Gertrude,  73. 
Fleming,  Miss  Laura,  92,  94. 
Harrison,  Mrs.  Fannie,  64. 
Hauser,  Miss  A.,  101. 
Holden,  Miss  Mary,  51. 
Holmes,  Miss  J.  R.,  76,  82,  83. 
Hubbard,  Miss  D.  J.,  91,  92, 

93,  95. 
Johnson,  Miss  J.  R.,  101. 
Kirkland,  Miss  M.  J.,  70. 
Lawrence,  Miss  Stella,  70,  71. 
Lee,  Miss  Lucinda  B.,  89,  90, 

91. 
Miksch,  Miss  Viola,  80,  81. 
Miles,  Miss  Myra,  89. 
Millar,  Miss  Anna,  81,  94. 
Millar,  Miss  Henrietta,  94. 
Murphy,  Miss  Nellie    E.,  99, 

105. 
Ockenga,  Miss  E.  W.,  101. 
Phoenix,  Miss  May,  63,  64. 
Plumb,  Miss  E.  M.,  93. 
Read,  Miss  A.,  105. 
Rommeis,  Miss  Pauline,  61. 
Rj'an,  Mrs.  Cecilia,  90. 
Sabin,  Mrs.  A.  R.,  51,  52. 
Smith,  Miss  Clarissa,  91. 
Summy,  Mrs.  C.  F.,  61. 
Tuthill,  Miss  Lulu,  61. 
Upton,  Miss  Annie,  61. 
White,  MissM.,  94. 
Tenors,   regular  : 

Abercrombie,  Charles,  69. 

Gill,  James,  52. 

Hall,  Glenn,  95,  97,  98, 104, 105. 

Hine,  W.  S..  89,  91,  92,  95. 

Otis,  Philo  A. ,  48,  51,  52, 54, 64. 

Rollo,  Alfred,  99. 

Root,  F.  K.,  71,  72,  74,  75,  76, 

78,80,82,87,89,91,92,93,94. 
Sterritt,  E.  M.,  67. 
Swift,  James,  96. 


INDEX. 


175 


Tenors,   occasional   and   assist- 
ing : 

Barnes,  Chas  T.,  Gl. 

Clippinger,  D.  A.,  70. 

Crankshaw,  C.  W. ,  75,  76, 77, 87. 

Dawson,  Geo.  E.,  64. 

Greenleaf,  E.  C,  73. 

Holder,  F.  W.,  82. 

Kov/ard,  R.  T.,  51,  52,  61,  85. 

Key,  P.  V.  R. ,  80,  81. 

Knorr,  C.  A.,  64. 

Lamson,  W.  A.,  83. 

Leach,  C.  E.,  59. 

Mix,  H.  A.,  101. 

Otis,  Philo  A.,  70,  71.  72, 7G,  80, 
81,  82,  83,  89,  90.  91,  92.  93. 
91.  95,  99.  101,  105. 

Rattenbury,  J.,  58,  59,  61. 

Sabin,  A.  R.,  51,  52. 

Shuart,  J.  J.,  90. 

Smith,  CM.,  58,  61. 

Snider.  O.  C.  61. 

Tobey,  C.  H.  M.,  78. 

Wait,  E.F..  89. 

Wall<er,  J.  E.,  105. 

Wessels.  F.  J.,  91,  94.  95,99, 
101,  105. 
Basses,  regular : 

Allen,  E.  A.,  76,  78,  80.  82,  88, 
91,  95. 

Beresford,  Arthur,  73,  74,  75, 
76. 

Cowles,  E.  C,  68,  69,  70. 

Evarts,  E.  S.,  48,  49. 

Goldsmith.  A.  L.,  49,  51,  52,  61. 

Greenleaf,  C.  H.,  71. 

Hubbard,  J.  M.,  51,  52.  54.  64, 
76,  85. 

lott,  Geo.  H.,  71,  72.  73. 

Root,  Charles  T.,  54. 

Vv^illiams,    Alfred,    95,   97.  99, 
103,  105. 
Basses,   occasional   and    assist- 
ing: 

Atkinson,  C.  T.,  83.  87.  89,  90, 

91,  92.  93,  94.  95,  99.101,  105. 
Atkinson,  F.  H.,  Jr.,  87,  90,  91, 

92.  93,  94,  95,  99,  105. 
Bushnell.  C.  K.,  80,  81,  82. 
Clark,  Frank  IC,  93. 
Carpenter,  J.  S.,  73,  76. 
Eddy,  A.  D..  72. 
Harvey,  H.  B.,  101. 
Hubbard,  J.  M.,  Jr.,  70. 

Lee,   Chas.   S.,   58,  59,  64,  70. 

71,  80,  81,  82,  83,  89. 
Mason,  W.  L.,  59,  61. 
McHenry,  W.  P.,  69. 
Moore,  J.  S.,  58,  59,  61. 


Basses,    occasional   and   assist- 
ing. — Continued: 

Pearson,  Frank,  70,  75,  77,  78. 

Ramsey,  F.  M.,  72. 

Scott,  A.  T.,  92,  93,  94,  105. 

Sloan,  H.  L.,  61. 

Sprague,  Wm.,  51, 52,61,  03,  64. 
Organists,     regular,    1857-1900: 

Baird,  F.  T.,  120. 

Bacon,  Geo.  F.,  41.  47,  48. 

Bird,  H.  G.,  91,  119. 

Cawthorne,  N.,  119. 

Cutler,  W.  H. ,  52. 

Dohn,  A.  W.,  68,  115,  118,  119. 

Eddy,  Clarence,  63,  64,  68, 
69,  70,  71,  72,  73.  74,  75,  76, 
78,  80.  82,  83.  84,  133,  134. 

Falk,  Dr.  Louis,  51. 

Fuller,  Henry,  49.  52. 

Oilman,  Dr.  J.  E.,  120,  121. 

Havens,  C.  A.,  54,  55,  117. 

Irwin,  C.  D.,  65,  66,  71,  7;!,  74, 
81,  84,  87,  88,  89,  95. 

Liebling,  Emil,  52. 

Moore,  Francis  S.,  84,  89,  90, 
91.  92,  93,  94,  95,  98,  99,  101, 
105. 

Owen,  B.  B.,  52. 

Root,  F.  W.,  55. 
Organists,  occasional : 

Dyer,  Mr.,  55. 

Flagler,  J.  V.,  51,  52. 

Guiimant,   A.,  79. 

Henderson,  L.  J.,  62. 

Hoyt,  L.  P.,  67. 

McCarrell,  A.  F.,  60,  66,  84, 
117. 

Middelschulte,  "William,  76. 

Moore,  S.  C,  55. 

West,  J.  A.,  81,  84. 

Wild,  H.  M.,  57,  84. 
Flute  : 

Bareither,  M.,  51. 

Timm.ons,  E.  S.,  75,  78,  79,  88. 
Cornet : 

Quinn,  John,  75. 
Harp : 

Chatterton,  Mme.  Jos.,  74. 

Dingley,  Miss  Blanclie,  S3. 

Timmons,  Miss  Lee,  S3. 

Lyon,  Geo.  W. ,  51. 
Violin  : 

Bar'.',  Emil,  101. 

Carpenter,  Miss  M.,  98,  99. 

Dimond,  Harry,  78. 

Kramer,  L.,  94. 

Marx,  L.,  105. 

Remenyi,  E.,  78. 

Rosenbecker,  A.,  74,  75,  78,83. 


176 


INDEX. 


Violin. — Continued: 

Schmitt,  E.,  77. 

Sir,  Mr.,  51,  52. 

Spiering-,  T.,  78. 
Violoncello : 

Bacbman,  M.,  51,  52. 

Steindel,    Bruno,    9-1,    95,    99, 
101,  105. 
Christ  Iveformed  Episcopal  Church, 

43,  44,  48,  <]4,  72. 
Clark,  Re\'.  W.  W.,  6. 
Cochrane,  J.  C,  41. 
Cook,  Rev.  Joseph,  GG,  79. 
Corej',  N.  J.,  112. 
Corwith,  Henry,  63. 
Corvvith,  Hathan,  63,  73. 
Cowles,  Alfred,  63. 
Craig-,  Rev.  W.  G.,  D.D.,  94. 
Crawford,  Rev.  Geo.,  58. 
Curtis,  Rev.  E.,  58. 
Curtis,  Rev.  H.,  D.D.,  21,  22,  25,  26, 

56.  155,  156. 
Curtis,  H.  M.,  28,  156. 
Curtis,  Rev.  S.  I.,  D.D.,  90. 
Curtiss,  James,  12. 
Cuyler,  Rev.  T.  L.,  26,  27,  28,  78. 
Darrow,  G.  V7.,  92. 
Dearborn,  Gen.  H. ,  8. 
Dickinson,  Rev.  W.  C,  39. 
Dow^ns,  A.  G.,  25,  56,  121. 
Downs,  Mrs.  A.  G.,  68. 
Drake,  Carlton,  25. 
Drake.  John  B.,  63,  87. 
Dunham,  Dr.  W.  N.,  46,  121. 
Dykes,  Rev.  J.  B.,  131. 
Dyson,  John  R.,  86. 
Ebell,  Prof.,  45. 
Eddy,  Clarence,  pupils  of,  84. 
Eels,  Rev.  Dr.,  55. 
Elgin  Band,  J.  Keeker,  leader,  72. 
Farwell,  Mrs.  J.  A.,  51.  52,  61.  76,  80. 
Fassett,  Mrs.  S.  M.,  118,  122. 
Field,  Marshall,  57,  63. 
First  Baptist  Church,  54,  55. 
Fir.st  Christian  Church,  105. 
Fisher,  Mrs.  Flora,  87. 
Fisk,  Prof.  F.  W. ,  58, 59, 60,  61,  68, 92. 
Fort  Brady,  10. 
Fort  Dearborn,  7,  8,  9,  10. 
Fourth  Presbyterian  Church,  25. 
Fowle,  Capt.  J.,  10,  141. 
Fox,  Mrs.  O.  L.,  51,  52. 
Freeman,  Rev.  A.  B.,  13,  15. 
Freeman,  Robert,  18. 
Freer,  L.  C.  P.,  76,  77. 
Freer,  Mrs.  L.  C.  P.,  171. 
Gates,  Harry,  51. 
Gleason,  F.  G.,  59.  _ 
Goodrich,  Austin,  25. 


Goss.  Rev.,  22. 

Grant,  W.   C,  70. 

Graves,  Major  E.  P.,  '6^. 

Graves,  Rev.  F.  W.,  32,  .35. 

Graves,  Col.  Rufus,  35. 

Greatores,  Rev.  Ed.,  letter  from,  131. 

Greatorex,  H,  W.,  131,  132. 

Gunsaulus,  Rev.  F.  V/.,  S3. 

Hale,  Rev.  Albert,  17. 

Hale,  Rev.  E.  E.,  D.D.,  65. 

Hall,  Rev.  Thos.  C,  D.D.,  73. 

Hamill,  C.  D.,  63. 

Hamill,  Dr.  R.  C,  27,  44,  63. 

Hamlin,  Geo.,  80. 

Harper,  Dr.  W.  R.,  83. 

Hartley,  Rev.  R.  H.,  D.D.,  193. 

Haskell,  Mrs.  C.  E.,  166.  167. 

Hayt,  Dr.  J.  C,  36. 

Hayt,  Miss  Susan,  35. 

Hawes,  Rev.  J.,  14. 

Hazelton,  G.  H.,  29. 

Henderson,  C.  M.,  20,  60.  63,  88. 

Henderson,  C.  N.,  20,  25. 

Hinton,  Rev.  I.  T.,  15. 

Hoard,  Mrs.  M.  C,  6. 

HoUing-sworth,  J.,  34. 

Howe,  Samuel,  18,  19. 

Hoyt,  Rev.  C.  S.,  93. 

Hubbell,  Rev.,  79. 

Hughitt,  Marvin,  63. 

Humphrey,  Rev.   Edward,  14. 

Humphrey,  H.  M.,  63. 

Humphrey,  Rev.  Z.  M.,  D.D.,  5,  14, 
24,  28,  29,  35,  36,  53,  60,  79,  156, 157, 
158,  159,  160. 

Hymn  Book,  "Laudes  Domini,"  in- 
troduced, 71. 

Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal,  12. 

Illinois  Hotel  Co.,  12. 

Immanuel  Baptist  Church,  48,  72,  82. 

Ingraham,  G.  S.,  43. 

Irwin,  D.  W.,  63,  80, 

Jamison,  D.  T.,  14. 

Jenkins,  Ebenezer,  32,  33,  36. 

Jenkins,  Rev.  H.  D.,  D.D.,  33. 

Jennings,  Rev.  W.  B.,  D.D.,  93. 

Jessup,  Rev.  Dr.,  82. 

Johnson,  Rev.  H.,  D.D.,  60,64,68,76. 

Johnson,  Harry,  117. 

Johnson,  Rev.  S.  M.,  82. 

Jones,  D.  A.,  43,  68,  86. 

Jones,  Fernando,  89. 

Kelley,  A.  P.,  82,  103. 

Kirk,  Rev.  E.  N.,  14. 

Kittredge,  Rev.  A.  E.,  D.D.,  61,  64. 

Laflin,  G.  H.,  63. 

Lafiin,  Mathew,  92. 

Lane,  Gen.  James,  37. 

Lansing,  Rev.  Derrick,  D.D.,  14. 


INDEX. 


177 


Larrabee,  C.  R.,  6,  113,117. 

Laverty,  Rev.  L.  F..  96. 

Ledochowski,  N.,  51. 

Lee,  Charles  S.,  death  of,  93. 

Lind,  S.,  18,  19. 

Lord,  Rev.   Daniel,    D.D.,  6.,  39,  40, 

43,  4-i. 
Lorimer,  Rev.  Geo.  C,  D.D.,  62. 
Lovejo3',  Rev.  E.  P.,  35. 
Ludlain,  Dr.  R.,  27. 
Mackinac,  11. 
Maher,  Huj^h,  20. 
Mas-oun,  Rev.  G.  F.,  21. 
Manierre,  Miss  Eva,  51. 
Marquis.  Rev.  D.  C,  D.D.,  103. 
Marsh,  Sylvester,  19. 
Mather,  J.  M.,  27. 
Mattison,  Mrs.  Cassie,  116. 
McCaus-han,  Rev.  W.  J.,  98. 
McLean,  Rev.  William,  15. 
McLennan,   Rev.  W.   G.,  D.D.,  105. 
McPherson,   Rev.  S.    J.,  D.D.,    62, 

64,  71,  73,  91,  102. 
McWilliams,  Rev.  D.  A.,  93,  94. 
Meeker,  Jos.,  12,  32,  8(). 
Missions  of  First  Church. 
Archer  Avenue,  30. 
Indiana  Street,  30. 
Foster,  30. 
Railroad,   29,   30,   31,   56,   64,    68, 

71,  75,  79,  81. 
Sands,  30. 
Mitchell,  Rev.  Arthur,    D.D.,    5,    9, 
10,  13,  14,  15,  29,  30,  43,  48,  53,  55, 
56,  57,  58,  64,  65,  75,  79,  84,  121, 
161,  1G2,  163,  164. 
Miter,  Rev.  J.  J.,  15. 
Momery,  Rev.  Dr.,  79. 
Montg-omery,  Rev.  H. ,  60. 
Moody,  D.  L.,  68. 
Moore,  Hon.  S.  M.,  45. 
Moore,  Z.,  35. 
Morton,  Rev.  C.  M.,  59,  65,  79,  80, 

81,  85,  88,  91,  93. 
Muchmore,  Rev.  Dr.,  58. 
Murison,  A.,  55. 
Murray,  Jas.,  45. 
Mvrick,  W.  F.,  86. 
Myrick,  Mrs.  W.  F.,  89. 
Nelson,  C.  B.,  19,  25,  83,  67,  114. 
Norton,  C.  A.,  28. 
Norton,  J.  O.,  43,  45,  123. 
Noyes,  Rev.  Geo.  C,  D.D.,  38,  61,  72. 
Olivet  Presbyterian  Church,  32,  33, 

42. 
O'Neale,  Thos.  P. ,  letter  from,  132. 
Org-an  of    First   Church,    specifica- 
tion, 49. 


Org-an  Builders  : 

Andrews,  Geo.  N.,  6,  114. 

Bassett,  Ira,  87. 

Erben,  Henry,  113,  115. 

Farrand  &  Votey,  114,  125. 

Flail  &  Labag-h,  26,  114,  115. 

Hill  &  Son,  124. 

Hook,  E.  &  G.  G.,  115. 

Hook  &  Hasting-s,  41,  49,  125. 

Hutchings,  Geo.  S.,  6. 

Jardine,  E.  D.,  6. 

Jardine  &  Son,  114,  115. 

Johnson,  W.  A.,  6,  114. 

Mitchell  &  Sou,  125. 

Pilcher  Bros.,  116. 

Roosevelt,  H.  L.,  124,  125. 

Walcker  &  Son.  124. 

Willis,  Henry,  124. 
Organists  : 

Ansorge,  Chas. ,  115. 

Baumbach,  A.,  115,  116. 

Buck,  Dudlev,  114,  134,  135. 

Chant,  H.  W.,  116. 

Crouch,  Thos.,  116. 

Currie,  W.  H.,  25,  115. 

Frohock,  Mrs.   A.  O.  (Sarah  Til- 
linghast),  115. 

Hood,  D.  N.,  117. 

Knopfel,  G.  C,  51,  52,  115,  116. 

Payne,  T.  S.,  117. 

Rem,  Emil,  117. 
Ostrander,  Rev.  L.  A.,  82. 
Otis,  James,   32,  33,   36,  43,  44,  45, 

70,  84. 
Otis,  Miss  Pauline  L.,  91. 
Packard,  E.  A.,  104. 
Page,  Rev.  W.  N.,  D.D.,  103. 
Palmer,  Rev.  S.  C,  D.D.,  97. 
Patterson,    Rev.    R.   W.,    D.D.,    22, 

23,  24,  29,  45.  58,  60,  64,  81. 
Patton,  Rev.    Francis  L.,  D.D.,  53, 

57. 
Pearsons,   D.  K.,  63. 
Pearsons,  Hiram,  14. 
Peck,  A.  R,,  108. 
Peck,  P.  F.  W.,  19,  20. 
Penlield.  H.  D.,  44. 
Penfield,  Mrs.  H.  D..  83. 
Penfield,  H.  D.,  Jr.,  67. 
Peoria    Main    Street  Presbyterian 

Church,  13. 
Perkins,  George  W.,  27. 
Pierce,  Rev.  E.  A.,  38,  39. 
Pierson,  S.  H.,  26,  27. 
Plymouth    Congregational   Church, 

24,  42,  64,  71,  82,  105. 

Porter,  Rev.  Jeremiah,  D.D.,  10, 
11,  12,  13,  15,  17,  64,  140,  141,  142, 
143,  153. 


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INDEX, 


Porter,  Mrs.  J.,  142,  143. 

Porter,  Miss  Sarah,  158. 

Price,  Rev.  P.  B.,  letter  from,  101. 

Protestant  Orphan  Asylum,  32,  35, 

45. 
Psalmody: 

Church    Psalmist.     Editions  1843 
and  1847,  137. 

Laudes  Domini,  71,  139. 

Plymouth  Collection,  139. 

Psalms    and    Hymns.       Editions 
1881  and  1836,  137. 

Psalms  of  David,   Dwight.     Edi- 
tions 1817  and  1827,  136. 

Psalmsof  David,  Watts.     Edition 
1853,  138. 

Sabbath  Hymn   and   Tune  Book, 
139. 

Song-s  for  the  Church,  139. 

Songs  for  the  Sanctuary,  138. 

Villag-e    Hymns,    Asahel    Nettle- 
ton,  136. 
Ranney,  O.  D,,  44,  45,  81. 
Ray,    Rev.    E.    C,   D.D.,  67,  76,  80, 

88,  89,  90,  94. 
Raymond,  B.  W.,  17,  147. 
Robbins,  E.  V..  29,  30. 
Russell,  S.  and  F.  A.,  18. 
Saltonstall,  Mrs.  Wm.,  6. 
Savi'yer,  Prof.  A.  J.,  35,  46. 
Scott,  Gen.,  10. 

Scovel,  Rev.  Sylvester,  D.D.,  96. 
Scudder,  Rev.  H.  M.,  D.D.,  64. 
Second    Presbyterian    Church,    23, 

29,  42,  43,  54,  55,  64.  67,  70,  71,  77, 

81,  82,  105. 
Seaverns,  C.  H.,  117.  118. 
Seelye,  H.  E.,  6,  26,  44. 
Seeboeck,  W.  C.  E.,  77. 
Sherwood,  H.  M.,  63. 
Shufeldt,  Mrs.  Mary  K.,  103. 
Simpson,  Rev.   Dr.,  55. 
Smith,  B.  L.,  63. 
Smith,  Dr.  Charles  G.,  80. 
Smith,  Mrs.  Charles  G.,  89. 
Smith,  J.  W.,  27,28,  29. 
Smith,  S.  A.,  57. 
Smith,  Rev.  S.  S.,  27. 
Spencer,  F.  F.,  68. 
Spencer,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  F.  F.,  77. 
Starkweather,  Mrs.  C.  H.,  70. 
Starkv^eather,  Otis,  70. 
Stevenson,  Prof.  J.  Ross,  90. 
St.  Ja.mes'  Episcopal  Church,  .55, 141. 
Strong,  Rev.  J.,  D.D.,  100. 
Sutton,  J.  B.,  46. 
Sv/azey,  Rev.  Arthur,  .36. 
Swett,  Leonard,  29. 
Swift,  W.  H.,  63. 


Swing-,  Rev.  David,  52,  53. 

Talmadgre,  Rev.  DeWitt,  D.D.,  78. 

Taylor,  Rev.  Dr.,  55. 

Taylor,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  39. 

Taylor,  W.  H.,  14. 

Taylor,  Rev.  W.  W.,  D.D.,  3S.' 

Temple,  Dr.  J.  T.,  15. 

Third  Presbyterian  Church,  21,  25, 

64. 
Thomas,  Mrs.  F.  A.,  116. 
Thomas,  Prof.  M.  B.,  91,  92. 
Thompson,  H.  M.,  40. 
Tiffany  Co.,  77,  79,  84. 
Tomlins,  Vv.  L.,  63. 
Torrey,  Rev.  D.,  157. 
Trinity  M.  E.  Church,  40,  41,  64,  72. 

82,  105. 
Trowbridge,  Rev.  J.  H.,  37,  38,  46. 
Tune  and  Anthem  Books: 

Baumbach's  Motettes,  134. 

Buck's  Motet  Collection,  135. 

Boston  Academy  of  Music,  Mason, 
127. 

Carmina  Sacra,  Mason,  129. 

Carmina  Sacra  (new),  Mason,  129. 

Church     and      Home     Collection, 
Leach,  133. 

Grace  Church  Collection,  130. 

Greatorex's  Collection,  130. 

Hallelujah,  Mason,  130. 

Hayter's  Church  Music,  133. 

Madison   Square  Collection,  Coe, 
134. 

Manhattan  Collection,    Hastings, 
128. 

Mendelssohn  Collection,  Hastings 
and  Bradbury,  129. 

Millard's  Selections,  136. 

Modern  Harp,   White  and  Gould, 
128. 

Modern  Psalmist,  Mason,  128. 

New  York  Choralist,  Hastings  and 
Bradbury,  128. 

New  Eng-land  Psalm  Singer,  Bil- 
lings, 127. 

Shawm,  Bradbury  and  Root,  129. 

Wilson's  Sacred  Ouartettes,  133. 
Tuttle,  Dr.  J.  F.,  156. 
Walker,  Mr.,  30. 
Walker,  Rev.,  21. 
Walker,  Rev.  Jesse,  9,  11. 
Vv^arner,  S.  P.,  Ill,  121. 
Watt,  Rev.  John  C. ,  D.D.,  96. 
Wells,  E.  S..  26,  29. 
Wentworth,  John,  15,  57. 
Wheelock,  O.  L.,  25. 
V/histler,  Capt.  J.,  8. 
Whitehead,  Jesse,  61. 
Whitehead,  Mrs.  R.  H.,  74. 


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Whitman,  Rev.  M.,  85. 
Wight,  Rev.  J.  A.,  32. 
Wilbor,  P.  A.,  35,  71. 
Wilcox.  Major,  10. 
Willard,  Miss  F.  L.,  15,  10. 
Wilson,  Mrs.  Genevieve  C,  92. 
Wilson,  Henry,  Hartford,  133. 
Wilson,  H.  T.,  27. 


Winant,  Miss  E.,  62. 
Wolf  Point,  11,  15. 
Wood,  Henry,  43,  45. 
Worcester,  Rev.  Dr.,  74. 
Wrig-ht,  John,  17. 
Wright,  John  S.,  9. 
Zante,  Bishop  of,  79. 
Zenos,  Prof.,  102. 


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